Impact of Online Education on the Academic Motivation for University Rural Youth in Egypt
2022
Hend Diab | Sara Ibrahim | Heba Mohamed
This research aimed to 1) describe some indicators related to distance education among university rural youth, 2) measure the academic motivation of respondents, 3) identify factors related to the academic motivation of respondents, and 4) identify the impact of distance education on the academic motivation of young rural university. Data were collected via an electronic questionnaire form distributed to the students of the Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University via WhatsApp groups; the rural students were urged to complete it. The number of completed forms was 416 during the period from June and July 2021. Frequencies, percentages and average, range, standard deviation, as well as correlation coefficient were used for data analysis and presentation. The results showed that the majority of respondents use the WhatsApp application (80%), the mobile internet package (54.6%), and the majority (51.9%) use online education for 2-3 hours per day. The results also showed that the average overall academic motivation of respondents was 109.76 ((which is approximately 78.4% of the overall scale). The results showed that there are significant correlations between the overall level of the students’ academic motivation with the variables of the overall level of electronic applications and smart devices used by respondents to access online learning and the total number of hours spent in online learning. The results also showed the positive effect of online learning on academic motivation, according to 72.8% of respondents, where the motivation of internal organization had the greatest impact on online education according to 80.3% of respondents.
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