Factors affecting e-learning for achievement

E-learning is an essential trend in education for the 21st century. Because the nature of e-learning is different from the traditional learning, an in-depth research on factors affecting e-learning would help instructors to improve their teaching effectiveness, and the results can also benefit e-learning players for their operation and management of cyber universities (digital schools). This study adopted methods combining both qualitative and quantitative. The subjects were 70 students taking "Computer Networks and the Internet" course in the masters program offered over the Internet by National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan. The study found that elearning provided a good learning achievement and students' background has no significant influence on learning achievement. However, study habits and class attendance with learning achievement were found to have positive and significant relation. In addition, we survey influencing factor for more understanding of the learner in factors that affect students' success in Web-based learning. The most significant factors according to the influence level are: 1. Job factor, 2. Internet transmission speed and stability, 3. Diligence, 4. Instructors' online lecture delivery software.