How Did We Find Evidence for LMS Adoption?

This chapter provides details on how did we find evidence for the adoption of LMS technology: the methodology. Not only the descriptions of this project’s research design, instruments used, data collection, and analysis methods and techniques are provided but also why certain methods and techniques are used is also elaborated here in this chapter, and how did we improve the validity of our instruments has been explained. Finally, this research’s overall reliability and validity are discussed in this chapter.

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