1. Age & Gender:
Koohang and Durante (2003) found that learners from different age and
gender equally perceived that the web- based distance learning activity
portion of their blended programme promoted learning. Meyer (2003) ,
interestingly, found that gender differences appear in online exchanges just
as they would in regular situations. Males were more likely to control online
discussions, posed more questions, expressed more certainty in their
opinions and were more concrete, whereas females were more empathetic,
polite and agreeable. The females also supplied the niceties that maintain
relationships such as ‘please’ and ‘thank you’. This finding may only
indicate that the learners take their normal personalities, judgments and
beliefs about others into the online setting. In other words, They are
consistent in their online interactions, despite expressing themselves in a
different form.