Students and e-learning: A Longitudinal Research Study into University Students’ Opinions on e-learning

Abstract

The study presents the attitudes of university students towards e-learning, as one of the up-to-date forms of education, within the framework of their undergraduate studies. It presents the course and the selected results of the survey research, carried out from the year 2008 to 2012, the main objective of which was to determine the preferences and opinions of the students with respect to the form, the organization and the particular tools or elements of e-learning. Thus the present study is a contribution to the discussion about the possibilities and limits of the use of a fully electronic learning within the framework of the undergraduate and lifelong learning, based on the use of modern information and communication technologies.