Aspects Of The Big Five In The Distance Education Domain

Elsevier Editorial System(tm) for Personality and Individual Differences Manuscript Draft Manuscript Number: Title: Aspects of the Big Five in the distance education domain Article Type: Short Communication Section/Category: Short Communication (<3000... More

Elsevier Editorial System(tm) for Personality and Individual Differences Manuscript Draft Manuscript Number: Title: Aspects of the Big Five in the distance education domain Article Type: Short Communication Section/Category: Short Communication (<3000 words) Keywords: Big Five aspects, personality, higher education, online courses Corresponding Author: Miss. Federico R Leon, Ph.D. Corresponding Author's Institution: Universidad Científica del Sur First Author: Federico R Leon, Ph.D. Order of Authors: Federico R Leon, Ph.D.; Oswaldo Morales, PhD; Hugo Vertiz, MA Abstract: This study evaluated the usefulness of the ten aspects of the Big Five personality system in detecting differences between attendants and non-attendants of higher education online courses. Distance education theoreticians have formulated hypotheses on the personality traits that make the Autonomy, Connectedness, Diversity, and Openness attributes of the connectivist learning model attractive. 753 participants in execut Less