The Use of the Semantic Differential Method in Identifying the Opininons Of University Students on Education Realized Through e-learning

Abstract

Modern higher education encompasses a variety of forms, methods, and tools, which aim for a goal directed, and systematic mediation, acquisition, and consolidation of abilities, knowledge, skills, habits, values, attitudes, and forms of social conduct and behavior of students. It should also be noted that it is precisely the forms and methods which have undergone and are still undergoing dramatic changes. They have been alternated, transformed, new ones have been created, and some have disappeared.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 also illustrates the course of the research investigation, carried out from the year 2014, and submits some of the outputs. The main objective of the above mentioned investigation having been to determine the preferences and opinions about the form, the organization of e-learning and about the tools applied, the present study is conceived as 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.