Abstract—Distance e-learning has its difficulties, but it is still
a strongly growing aspect of education and training that both
public and private organizations use extensively. Technophobia
is a growing problem with continuously increasing technology
around us. While more and more teaching is given through
different technological equipment, more troubles are
encountered by the people, because of the negative feelings they
have towards them. Frustration and anxiety are known to be
part of the computer user’s life; almost all of the users at some
point feel themselves frustrated. Frustration causes people to
withdraw from the frustrating situation and make them not to
go through the frustrating situation again. This causes problems
in e-learning when students don’t want to continue learning in
frustrating environment and makes them to be afraid or
reluctant towards the computer. It was recommended that
government should assist in reducing the high cost of hardware
in Nigeria, and tariffs. Teaching and learning of computer that
has been inculcated in both secondary schools and tertiary
institutions in Nigeria should be revisited; also institutions
should be connected to internet.
Index Terms—Emotion, e-learning, distance and the fear of
technology.
Felicia K. Oluwalola is with the Kwara State Polytechnic, Department of
Office Technology and Management, Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria (e-mail:
doctoroluwalola@gmail.com).
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Cite: Felicia K. Oluwalola, " Effect of Emotion on Distance e-Learning — The Fear of
Technology," International Journal of Social Science and Humanity vol. 5, no. 11, pp. 966-970, 2015.