Document analysis was applied by means of a qualitative data analysis technique. Data analysis was realized in
four main stages. At the first stage of the data analysis, personal perceptions are bracketed from the written texts of
the students in order to reflect the personal phenomenological perceptions and the data correctly as possible. At the
second step, students’ reflections were analyzed by means of content analysis. The themes occurred based on the
students’ perceptions. The second stage of data analysis was carried out to identify themes, categories and patterns
based on the writings of the participants. In the third stage for reliability, the researcher’s and experts’ coding and
agreements and disagreements were evaluated and compared. Reliability of the study was found as 90 %. In the
fourth stage, the thematic results were related to motivation factors and motivation factors could be reviewed based
on the frame of the online course that is pedagogical, technological, organizational characteristics of the e- learning
system.