Abstract
In online education, students have been observed to face a few barriers in the overall learning and experience such as the absence of physical presence of the instructor, lack of instructor-student relationship, lack of student satisfaction and perceived learning. This research was conducted to study a few key variables in online education that may or may not have their effect on the perceived knowledge gain by students such as teacher self-disclosure, social presence, and teacher-student relationship satisfaction. This study is significant because it will provide important variables to universities offering online courses which may assist them in enhancing the learning process. Research shows factors that will positively impact the relationship between teachers and students. Through a convenience sampling technique, a total of 307 responses were collected through a close-ended questionnaire from the students of the virtual university in Karachi, Pakistan. Structural equation modeling (PLE-SEM) was used to evaluate the relation between the variables and co-relational design was used to find out the correlation between the 4 variables used in our study. The results of our study showed positive and significant relationships among all the variables, however, the p-value of social presence and relationship satisfaction did not support the relationship of both variables with each other.
Highlights
Online education has shown a dramatic growth in the past decade
The result of the regression analysis reported in table shows that in first hypothesis there is a positive relationship between student-teacher relationship satisfaction and continuous participation in Massive open online courses (MOOCs) platform as (β=0.055, p
The result of the regression analysis reported in table shows that in first hypothesis there is a positive relationship between student-teacher relationship satisfaction and and perceived knowledge gain (β =0.420, p
Summary
Online education has shown a dramatic growth in the past decade. In the US, the overall population of higher education students in online enrollment growth rate (10 percent) has experienced further growth. According to Bowers and Kumar (2015), online learning has become an important part of our educational system and is not a new phenomenon anymore. Given the demands of lifestyle, it is no surprise that the online learning format’s flexibility and convenience attracts students. Latest researches have shown that the quality of online education is similar to face-to-face learning (Bowers & Kumar, 2015). When we compare online classes to traditional (face to face) classroom settings, online classes provide many advantages to students such as flexibility, convenience and access to education
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