Role of extrinsic and intrinsic motivation on satisfaction in E-learning in Kuwait: an experimental study

Abstract EN

This research focusses on the role played by intrinsic and extrinsic motivation on perceived satisfaction of students in higher education through e-learning with perceived usefulness and confirmation as mediating variables.

The research is based on positivist paradigm.

The researchers adopted the experimental approach for testing seven hypotheses using structural modelling technique on a randomly chosen sample (n = 212).

The respondents were students at graduate level in the Education Technology in a governance- oriented institute in Kuwait.

The hypotheses testing indicated that it is only the intrinsic motivation of the students that can significantly influence confirmation as well as perceived usefulness and provide satisfaction in e-learning.

Theoretical implication has been the proposition of two additional dimensions to the confirmation expectation theory.

Practical implications come in the form of suggestions to the stakeholders of e-learning in Kuwait to make e- learning satisfactory to the students.