Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 教育科技學系碩士在職專班 === 94 === The purpose of this study is to explore the effects of personal backgrounds and motivational factors for the demands of adults participating computer literacy courses in community universities. Literature on personal backgrounds and adult learning motivations were reviewed and their relationships were analyzed. A survey on adults’ learning motivation and curricular demands on computer literacy courses were performed, subjects were students from community universities around Taipei city.
The findings of the study are:
1.The major motivational factors affects the demands of adult participating the computer literacy courses for community universities is cognition interest, followed by social stimulation, family togetherness, professional advancement, consecutively .
2.The priority of curricular demands for adult participating the computer literacy courses in community universities is: computer basics, networking skills, multimedia, and office software.
3.There are correlations between the personal backgrounds and the curricular demands. Factors include age, educational background, and computer experiences.
4.The higher the learning motivation, the higher the curricular demand, regardless of the subjects and content of the courses.
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