%0 Journal Article
%T PREDICTOR OF E-LEARNING DEVELOPMENT AND USE PRACTICES IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS (HEIs) OF NWFP, PAKISTAN
%A Ghulam Muhammad KUNDI
%A Allah NAWAZ
%J The Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education
%D 2011
%I Anadolu University, Eskisehir
%X One cannot predict the details of future but one can surely prepare for it. Researchers in eLearning are capitalizing on the user-perceptions as possible predictor of the user-attitudes towards the development, use, problems and prospects of eLearning in their institutions. This application is founded on the psychological fact that a human¡¯s attitude depends on his/her ¡®belief¡¯ or ¡®perceptions: meaning given by the individual¡¯ about the thing used. That is, if eLearning users perceive educational technologies favorably, they are more likely to speedily adopt digital tools than those who misperceive or under-perceive them. This research reveals that perceptions about educational technologies are very significantly related with and predict the criterion variable of ¡®Problems of eLearning¡¯ but surprisingly, the ¡®prospects of eLearning¡¯ are very nominally associated with and predicted by the predictor.
%K Perceptions
%K Educational Technologies
%K eLearning Development
%K Use
%K Problems and Prospects
%U http://tojde.anadolu.edu.tr/tojde41/pdf/article_5.pdf