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What is Asynchronous Online Education

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Evaluating Mental Workload for Improved Workplace Performance
It is an online education form where communication is done asynchronously, that is, through non-immediate networks and without the need for people to be connected at the same time. The best example to understand the asynchronous communication is the electronic mail or a forum in which a query is left and can be solved in the following hours.
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Evaluating Technostress to Improve Teaching Performance: Chilean Higher Education Case
Alejandro Vega-Muñoz (Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Chile) and Carla Estrada-Muñoz (Universidad de Concepción, Chile)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1052-0.ch008
Abstract
The main objective is to evaluate the techno stress perception in the Chilean higher education system professors, a system with a strong market orientation regarding the career's free choice and professional orientation, which is mainly offered in face-to-face mode. In the techno-stress levels identification, it is important to distinguish if these are such that they can affect the teaching performance. For this, techno-tensors and factors are used that determine the technology impact levels in academic stress, in the components: skepticism, fatigue, anxiety and inefficacy. A quantitative approach methodology and non-random design is used, with a snowball sampling obtaining the 190 academics' opinions from Chilean universities. Detecting in general low techno-stress levels with the fatigue slightly higher in comparison to the other three components.
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