How is the Use of ICT Shaping Our Intended Effort for Learning?

During COVID-19 pandemic, students of all educational levels were forced to transition from face-to-face to online learning setting which necessitated the use of ICT and different learning platforms such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams or Google Meet. During the 2022/2023 academic year, 279 non-English major students at the University of Slavonski Brod in Croatia participated in a study to determine the effect of online learning experience on the process of learning English as a foreign language (EFL). Kendall’s tau-b, Mann-Whitney U, and t-tests revealed a strong positive correlation between intended effort and the experience of online learning during tertiary education. The instrument used in the research has not yet been applied in the context of postpandemic Croatian universities, so the findings represent a frontier in exploring the influence of using ICT in formal learning of EFL.