Elements of E-Learning that Facilitate or Hinder Learning Motivation: A Review

Abstract

A new way of teaching has been spawned in the wake of the rapid growth of sophisticated technology. Digital technologies in some way enable the teachers to create teaching material that is more interesting because the learning is tailored to the needs of the students related to their upcoming professional workplaces. Moreover, students can easily and efficiently find learning materials by utilizing digital technology in the classrooms. Student participation in the classroom is increased, as is collaboration within the class. This can allow the student's proficiency to improve. Also, integrating digital technology in the classroom can create an enjoyable teaching-learning process, resulting in a positive attitude to learners, and they become motivated to participate in learning activities.  Students can also become distracted or digress when using digital technology in English for Specific Purpose classrooms, for example, when using YouTube or smartphones in the learning process. As we know motivation is the key factor behind learning especially in educational institutions where teachers are the only source of motivation but through the interventions of digital technology learning become e-learning. In electronic teaching learning system presence of teacher is there but what are the other motivational factors in e – learning system that reinforces the learning of students. In the backdrop of this present paper explored the elements in e-content and e learning that act as a motivational element for students in virtual teaching learning process. in this paper researcher conducted a meta-analysis of the past researches conducted on e- learning and motivation. The results of the study points out that e-content and e-learning having interactive features like animation, better organization, collaborative features enhance the learning motivation of students.