creators_name: Zahir Osman, 
creators_name: Ratna Khuzaimah Mohamad, 
creators_name: Liana Mohamad, 
type: article
datestamp: 2022-02-09 05:45:53
lastmod: 2022-02-09 05:45:53
metadata_visibility: show
corp_creators: Open University Malaysia
title: Enhancing Students' Online Engagement: A Study on Online Distance Learning Institutions' Students
ispublished: pub
subjects: BF
subjects: LB2300
subjects: LC5800
full_text_status: none
keywords:  Online Learning Attitude; Online Peer Collaboration; Psychological Motivation; Digital Readiness and Online Engagement.
abstract: Objective - This study evaluates the direct relationships among online learning attitude, online peer collaboration, psychological motivation, digital readiness, and online engagement among students in Malaysia's online distance learning (ODL) higher education institutions.

Methodology/Technique - The structural Equation Model (SEM) method was employed to evaluate the direct influence of online learning attitude, online peer collaboration, and psychological motivation on digital readiness and the direct influence of digital readiness on online engagement. The model was developed based on the conceptual development and subsequently analysed using the Partial Least Square (PLS) technique on 391 data acquired during the survey.

Finding - The outcomes from the statistical data analysis have clearly shown that the online learning attitude, online peer collaboration, and psychological motivation have positively and significantly influence digital readiness.

Novelty - The model of this study is the first model been used by utilising Smart-Pls version3 for data analysis to study students' engagement in ODL higher institutions in Malaysia.
date: 2021
date_type: published
publication: GATR Global Journal of Business & Social Science Review
volume: 9
number: 3
publisher: Global Academy of Training & Research (GATR)
pagerange: 207-215
id_number: 10.35609/gjbssr.2021.9.3(2)
refereed: TRUE
issn: 2180-0421 (print), 2289-8506 (online)
official_url: http://gatrenterprise.com/GATRJournals/GJBSSR/vol9.3_2.html
citation:   Zahir Osman,  and Ratna Khuzaimah Mohamad,  and Liana Mohamad,   (2021) Enhancing Students' Online Engagement: A Study on Online Distance Learning Institutions' Students.  GATR Global Journal of Business & Social Science Review, 9 (3).  pp. 207-215.  ISSN 2180-0421 (print), 2289-8506 (online)