E-Learning and E-Teaching Effectiveness: Academic Staff Perception

Implementation of e-learning practices requires from teachers not only digital skills, but also motivation to work in e-environment. The overwhelming goal of the planned large-scale research is to determine e-teaching value perceived by the academic staff members representing higher education institutions in Latvia and other countries. The goal of the current paper is to reflect the results of the authors’ conducted pilot survey, using the authors’ developed questionnaire. The authors focused on the factors affecting e-teaching effectiveness, perceived by the academic staff members. 38 academic staff members representing the University College of Economics and Culture participated in the survey. The respondents were offered to evaluate nine pre-determined factors according to their perceived importance. Data has been processed in SPSS 24.0 environment with application of Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) analysis. The analysis revealed that the most important characteristics that has an influence on respondents’ perception of factors effecting e-teaching effectiveness was educational background. On the opinion of the most respondents, the factor contributing to effective e-teaching is a regular training in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).