Exploring the Relationship between Motivational Learning Factors in Online Learning

The emergence of online learning in our academia becomes more dynamic and pertinent with the move into the fourth Industrial revolution (4IR) and the advent of the Covid 19 pandemic. This caused the need to address the issues of introducing new innovative teaching methods using the internet and non face-to-face-instruction. Online learning motivation became an alarming issue among learners in Malaysia which pertained to the importance of studying the motivation factors in learning via the electronic mode. This investigation aims to unravel the needs and relations that exist in the motivational learning factors among learners in online learning. A total of 128 learners at foundation studies level from a public institution in Malaysia were studied in a quantitative study. The results of the study revealed that there is moderate correlation between learners’ expectancy of the outcome of their future vocation and the value of the online instruction and knowledge that they receive from online learning. Social support from various factors are also found to be instrumental towards the learners’ success in the effective acceptance of online learning. Implications for more meaningful and activity-based learning, incorporating the axioms of motivational learning are to be considered as improvements for more effective pedagogy in the digital realm.