Determinants Affecting Online Learning Behaviour and Learning Effectiveness

Using Fuzzy DEMATEL, this article investigates the learner’s behaviour of online learning that features multiple characteristics which are complicated and interacting with each other, and between them clears the relationships to provide or benefit schools with teaching strategies, courses design and planning activating learners’ learning behaviour and achieving learning effectiveness. With respect to the dimensions, music learning motivation, self-directed learning are the determinant dimensions of learners’ behaviour and learning effectiveness that affecting other four dimensions; and to the criteria, they are preference and use on computers and smart phones, online learning affecting other 31 factors

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