Validity assessment of students' acceptance towards online distance learning / Nur Huda Jaafar ... [et al.]

Online distance learning is getting more popular as one of the approaches for delivering teaching and learning. The student's acceptance of online distance learning should be measured rigorously because it helps to indicate the teaching and learning delivery levels of success. An evaluated and validated instrument to measure students' acceptance of online distance learning is needed for this purpose. To achieve this, Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Nomology Analysis are used to evaluate and validate students' acceptance of online distance learning instruments. The EFA of this study on 32 items resulted in the construction of seven dimensions: Self-Productivity, Content Productivity, Effort Expectancy, External Influence, Personal Innovativeness, Self-Management Learning, and Behavioural Intention. The correlation analysis indicates that all the bivariate relationships among the components were significantly correlated with at least a 95% confidence level. This result shows that the instrument can be considered valid and reliable and used to measure students' acceptance of online distance learning.