Online Learning Motivation

Abstract

The objective of this document is to carry out a bibliographic review on the motivation of online learning in some Latin American countries, and the internal and external variables that are presented to the student in order to successfully complete a virtual training program. As a result, reference is made to fifteen investigations developed and published in scientific journals, such as Dialnet, Redalyc, Psichotema, among others. The successes of culmination in any virtual training program persuasively contribute to the academic agents, generating motivational strategies for people who wish to enter this learning modality; on the other hand, it evidences indicators to the businessmen that allow to give a critical and objective look in the inclusion of human talent in diverse areas of knowledge and skills of technological competence. This review includes the concepts of intrinsic/extrinsic motivation, learning, and virtual environments. As a finding, in the search for literature it was found that in 2012 in Colombia around 10,000 teachers were trained in ICT-supported strategies, 13 Higher Education institutions with 37 programs at all educational levels