Development of Information and Telecommunications technologies has allowed both face-to-face teaching method and Internet-driven e-Learning to spread at a rapid face. Therefore competition among e-Learning service providers has become fiercer. In orde...
Development of Information and Telecommunications technologies has allowed both face-to-face teaching method and Internet-driven e-Learning to spread at a rapid face. Therefore competition among e-Learning service providers has become fiercer. In order to secure competitive edge in a rapidly changing business environment, businesses need to provide better goods and services to satisfy various needs of customers. Since e-Learning is a part of 'education', it has to be carried out through active mutual interaction among learners, centering on the contents of class as seen in the existing face-to-face teaching method. In addition, how to provide and operate multiple services to efficiently support this has much to do with effects of e-Learning.
In conducting this study, factors necessary to boost learning effects of e-Learning have been identified in preceding study of educational technology paradigm, and then those factors have been set as such variables as contents, mutual interaction, operation characteristics, and individual characteristics. In order to verify what relationship those factors have formed with customer satisfaction and repurchase intention in the existing marketing paradigm, study model and assumption were come up with and substantially verified.
In particular, as consumption activity, 'learning' is accompanied to consume goods and services of e-Learning, this study set 'learning intention'of consumers as a mediating variable of general satisfaction, thereby having verified a mediating role. Also, the study verified a moderator role by setting 'previous experience' as a moderator variable of general satisfaction. That is an untried approach ever so far in this type of studies, providing logical ground for expanding a study model by clearly verifying what relation structure exists in consumer satisfaction of e-Learning.
This study premises that the growth of e-Learning arises from consumer satisfaction, i.e., learners' satisfaction; leamers'satisfaction comes from learning intention of learners; and the learning intention is determined by characteristics which compose e-Learning.
On this promise, this study carried out a poll on those who have experienced e-Learning. Statistics of collected data was analyzed utilizing SPSS for Windows 10.0, while Technology Statistics Analysis, Factor Analysis, Reliability Analysis, Correlation Analysis, Multiple Regression Analysis, and Hierarchical Regression Analysis were conducted at the same time. As a result, all those assumptions were adopted.
Looking at overall analysis results of this study, the existing marketing paradigm that general satisfaction is a strong forecast variable of repurchase intention was also verified. In addition, when learning intention of individual characteristics serves as a mediating variable of general satisfaction and previous experience serves as a moderator variable, it is found that bigger impacts are made on satisfaction and repurchase intention.
This study is meaningful in that the study has identified the relationship that learning intention and previous experience, which is learners' individual characteristics and has been dealt with in Educational Technology, have a huge impact on e-Learning performances by serving as mediating and moderator variables of consumer satisfaction in marketing paradigm. This can be utilized as criteria to efficiently invest limited resources and to boost performances when developing goods and services of e-Learning businesses.
As future research tasks, this study looked at and analyzed e-Learning performances at an individual level. Taking into consideration that e-Learning has rapidly grown at school as well as business levels, further research needs to be done based on e-Learning performances of groups, thereby widening marketing areas.