The E-learning Platform in UniSIM

Why e-learning?
- Facility Limitations
- Flexible Learning Mode
- Strategy to distinguish ourselves from other institutions

Why not?
- Resistance from students
- Resentment from instructors

Psychological Factors that Underscore Resentment towards e-learning

- Anxiety & Apprehension
- Uncertainty Avoidance
- Scepticism
- Task Complexity
- Cost & Benefit Analysis

Model of CMC anxiety (Yeap & Ramayah, 2006)

Lazarus & Folkman (1984) Stress and Coping Model

Remedy Actions (lessons from other context)

• Operationalizing “support”
• Reinforcement
• Task complexity
• Cost & Benefit

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