Students Readiness for e-Learning: An Assessment on Hacettepe University Department of Information Management

Abstract

Students are one of the key elements during the implementation of elearning systems within universities. To be able to build solid and effective elearning systems, it is important to know the level of students’ readiness. In this paper, e-learning readiness of the Department of Information Management (DIM) students at Hacettepe University will be investigated. A 39-item elearning readiness questionnaire (along with some descriptive questions, such as gender and grade-level) that was tested in previous studies was used to obtain the data. The results show that, although some improvements are d, DIM students are at the expected level of e-learning readiness, in general.