The most interesting results based on the answers to the question of “According to you, what should be done to
increase the motivation in an online course?” is stated within the sub theme of teaching-learning process. These results are “providing more communication and collaboration between students” and “every week assigning a
student the task of managing course”. Moreover, these results are about students taking more responsibilities in the
online environment. Although number of the students who stated these characteristics as important factors of
increasing motivation is limited (seen in Table 2), these characteristics should be taken into consideration.. These
characteristics, insufficient student roles, social and shared learning environment are emphasized because they will
increase the motivation of students.