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Student’s Attitudes towards E-learning at Faculty of Economics and Business in Croatia

We are witness of continuous changes in our environment and habits as result of technology and specifically information technology development. But acceptance of new technology and solutions depends on different and numerous conditions. E-learning has numerous advantages in comparisons with traditional classroom learning, and it gains importance in education in different countries. The Universities and Faculties in Croatia are made significant efforts for e-learning popularization among students and business, but the e-learning acceptance in Croatia is still much lower in comparison with other development countries. This paper is present attitude of the students towards e-learning on Faculty of Economics. Although majority of students has positive attitude towards e-learning, still large portion of them are still reserved, and favours traditional classroom learning model. The research results confirm that largest portion of students still makes difference between diplomas gain by traditional classroom learning and distance learning model, and favours traditional learning model. Since every new student generation which comes to the study brings new and improved experiences related with technology usage, and specifically information technology usage, we compare results with previous researches led on our faculty and with similar researches done in some other countries. We can conclude that new student generation has a slightly more positive attitude towards e-learning than previous one, and much more positive for Internet as a source for knowledge. Almost all students use Internet frequently or on daily basis to get knowledge. But almost half are still uncertain about possibility to enrol distance learning study, they are not well informed about e-learning possibilities and still small portion of them has experience of e-learning usage. Almost all of students agree that e-learning is future and they are ready to participate as well as employees, or in the role of employer. The conclusion is that attitude towards e-learning among students can be improved but it requires additional effort to inform students how e- learning can improve their learning experience and how they can benefit from it.

e-learning; e-learning acceptance; student’s attitude; information technology

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