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Online learning: Adoption, continuance, and learning outcome—A review of literature

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  • Panigrahi, Ritanjali
  • Srivastava, Praveen Ranjan
  • Sharma, Dheeraj

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The use of Technology to facilitate better learning and training is gaining momentum worldwide, reducing the temporal and spatial problems associated with traditional learning. Despite its several benefits, retaining students in online platforms is challenging. Through a literature review of the factors affecting adoption, the continuation of technology use, and learning outcomes, this paper discusses an integration of online learning with virtual communities to foster student engagement for obtaining better learning outcomes. Future directions have been discussed, the feedback mechanism which is an antecedent of students’ continuation intention has a lot of scopes to be studied in the virtual community context. The use of Apps in m-learning and the use of cloud services can boost the ease and access of online learning to users and organizations.

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  • Panigrahi, Ritanjali & Srivastava, Praveen Ranjan & Sharma, Dheeraj, 2018. "Online learning: Adoption, continuance, and learning outcome—A review of literature," International Journal of Information Management, Elsevier, vol. 43(C), pages 1-14.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ininma:v:43:y:2018:i:c:p:1-14
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2018.05.005
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