Promoting Satisfaction in Online Courses
Abstract: This paper is a report on the findings of a study conducted on online courses in a teacher education college. It analyzes the contribution of online courses for undergraduate and graduate students. This study examines the attitudes and perceptions of students in various courses in several areas: the teaching process, the contribution of online tools, self-study, satisfaction, contribution to the learning, implementing different learning tasks, and the use of technology for teaching and learning. The findings show that the teacher, the online environment, the students accountability and self-learning ability as well as his TPACK level explain the satisfaction. It was found that the teacher affect satisfaction when the online environment is user friendly.
Presider: Raquel Santos, School of Education, Instituto Politécnico de Santarém, Portugal