Fully online undergraduate education: The impact of digital communication on course sales for low-income audiences
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https://doi.org/10.23925/2178-0080.2022v24i1.52540Keywords:
Digital communication, Distance education, Low-income audienceAbstract
This article discusses the effectiveness of digital communication in selling undergraduate online degree programs, offered entirely at a distance, to a low-income audience. With this objective, an exploratory survey was conducted, based on convenience and snowball sampling, with low-income residents in the State of São Paulo. The result reveals that digital communication influences the objectives and results related to the early stages of the decision-making process of purchase and weakens in proportion to trust achievement, not influencing attitudes that lead to the sale of courses of the analyzed modality. In conclusion, the audience is not homogeneous, and different digital communication strategies are needed to stimulate the purchase intention.
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