E-learning is fast becoming a choice for learners in various domains. E-learning as a choice, especially in developing countries, has potential for the users and an opportunity for the HCI designers. In order to capitalise on this opportunity, it will be helpful for HCI designers to look at the attitudes and motivations that make online learning preferable, along with the attitudes and motivations that make offline learning preferable. This research paper reports both quantitative and qualitative methods used to understand attitudes and motivations. While attitudes have been measured using the semantic differential technique, motivations have been dug into using deep probing with unstructured and open-ended qualitative interviews.