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Broadbent, Jaclyn; Howe, Wren D. W. – Distance Education, 2023
Online help-seeking refers to a learner's willingness to seek help in online learning environments. Counterintuitively, studies of help-seeking have found mixed results for the relationship between help-seeking and academic achievement. We hypothesized that these mixed findings might, in part, be accounted for by the confidence level of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Distance Education, College Students
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Cho, Moon-Heum; Cheon, Jongpil; Lim, Seongmi – Distance Education, 2021
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between motivation profiles and self-regulation in online students and self-regulation as a predictor of affective learning outcomes, depending on students' motivation profiles. A total of 556 online preservice teachers participated in this study at a university in the United States of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Motivation, Profiles, Electronic Learning
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Lee, Minhye; Lim, Jieun – Distance Education, 2023
The role of motivation in online learning has been explored mostly as a predictor of course retention or satisfaction, rather than as an adaptive outcome in itself. We thus aimed to investigate how the features of motivation develop in online courses during the semester and how students' perceived teaching and social presences influence their…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Online Courses, Learning Motivation, Student Attitudes
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Marinho, Paulo; Fernandes, Preciosa; Pimentel, Fernando – Distance Education, 2021
This study was developed in the context of a course in higher education and in a blended learning environment--online, distance, and face-to-face (b-learning). The aim was to identify and characterize the meanings and effects that students and teachers attribute to the use of digital portfolios as an assessment and learning strategy. The…
Descriptors: Portfolio Assessment, Portfolios (Background Materials), Blended Learning, Electronic Learning
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Sun, Susan Y. H. – Distance Education, 2014
This study builds on this author's 2011 article in which the author reflects on the pedagogical challenges and resultant changes made while teaching two fully online foreign language papers over a four-year period (Y. H. S. Sun (2011). Online language teaching: The pedagogical challenges. "Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Second Language Learning
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Furnborough, Concha; Truman, Mike – Distance Education, 2009
This qualitative study examines perceptions and use of assignment feedback among adult beginner modern foreign language learners on higher education distance learning courses. A survey of responses to feedback on assignments by 43 Open University students on beginner language courses in Spanish, French, and German indicated that respondents can be…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Open Universities, Second Language Learning, Native Speakers
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Persico, Donatella; Pozzi, Francesca; Sarti, Luigi – Distance Education, 2010
Monitoring the learning process in computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environments is a key element for supporting the efficacy of tutor actions. This article proposes an approach for analysing learning processes in a CSCL environment to support tutors in their monitoring tasks. The approach entails tracking the interactions within…
Descriptors: Cues, Learning Activities, Learning Strategies, Learning Processes