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Bachelor Thesis from the year 2018 in the subject Guidebooks - School, Education, Pedagogy, grade: 1.70, University of Regensburg, language: English, abstract: Distance learning has changed massively over the last decade because of establishing new technical tools. Although the e-learning market is rapidly growing, completion rates remain lower than in traditional courses. To enhance retention rates many scientists think of improving motivation of the participants as a good approach. Following this recommendation, this paper aims to analyze quantitaive empirical studies from the last 15 years to work out a structural relationship of the construct of perceived self-efficacy and leaving behavior in e-Learning. Inconsistency of definitions were found regarding dropout, self-efficacy and e-Learning. Results suggest that there are direct and indirect effects of self-efficacy on completion rates. Further it was indicated, that there are interaction effects with other variables.

The influence of motivation on dropout- and completion rates in distance education