Title:
AN INVESTIGATION OF E-LEARNING MOTIVATION OF IRAQI SECONDARY STUDENTS

Authors:
Ibtihal Hassan Mussa,Iraq

Abstract:
The educational organizations are not profits organizations; the budgets limitations considered as one from the main problems of learning activities development. The traditional learning systems such as classrooms spend high time and costs in order to ensure the learning outcome performance. E-learning is efficient solution to minimize the required time and costs of traditional learning activities using ICT services and infrastructures. E-learning activities have many advantages such as services accessibility and availability, contain management layers to manage the complex learning aspects, and minimize the costs of traditional learning through minimize the costs of physical objects i.e. papers. The students may not have the motivation to accept E-learning services instead of the current learning system in their learning environment. The educational organization needs to be ensured of students are motivate to usethe E-learning in order to adapt the E-learning services. The students’ motivation is one from the most important enabler of E-learning successful implementation. The main aim of this paper is to investigate the E-learning motivations of Iraqi secondary students in Malaysia in order to support the Iraqi educational organizations of E-learning adopting. The quantitative data approach using questionnaire was used to analyze thestudents’ motivation of applying E-learning services to complete their learning activities. The data collected from Iraqi school in Kuala-lumpur. The significance result shows that the students have enough motivation to use E-learning services instead of current learning system in their school.