A Review of Factors Influencing the Student Motivation for Learning in Virtual Environments

Abstract

The Coronavirus situation has escorted to the closure of scholastic institutes all around the world. To not interrupt their students’ learning, educational stakeholders had retorted excellently to this challenge by switching to virtual learning and by improving their virtual learning environments (VLEs). Hence, the VLEs have particular characteristics that should be met to accommodate the students’ learning in a trustworthy and successful way. This study aimed to critically review the influential factors of learning in VLEs via a descriptive study. Findings revealed that teacher personality, student autonomy, ICT, and course design are factors related to motivation for learning in a VLE. These findings are considered valuable contributions for educational stakeholders to meet the students’ educational, psychological, social, and technological needs in VLEs which have replaced, in part or whole, the traditional educational systems in most of the educational institutions around the world.