Title
Exploring the impact of students' motivation and self-regulation on the social nature of online learning experiences
Abstract
This study is to explore how students' social experience of online learning is impacted by their motivation and self-regulation. Path analysis was employed to unfold the intertwined relationships among students' academic motivation, self-regulation, and social constructs of online learning. The results show that students' academic motivation has positive influence for students' social ability, sense of community, ease of use of social awareness notification tools, and learning satisfaction, while self-regulation was found to serve a central role between the relationships of ease of use and usefulness of notification tools to students' social ability and sense of community. Additional examination of sub constructs of motivation and self-regulation helped further understanding of how these constructs impact the social nature of online learning.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1504/IJLT.2013.052833
IJLT
Keywords
Field
DocType
academic motivation,social nature,social experience,notification tool,social construct,online learning,constructs impact,additional examination,social ability,social awareness notification tool,soc,path analysis,motivation
Social psychology,Social consciousness,Usability,Online participation,Psychology,Sense of community,Social constructionism,Social nature,Path analysis (statistics),Social learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
8
1
1477-8386
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
4
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
I-Chun Tsai1404.21
I-Pei Tung200.68
James M. Laffey316119.89