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Balti, Rihab; Hedhili, Aroua; Chaari, Wided Lejouad; Abed, Mourad – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Since the COVID pandemic, universities propose online education to ensure learning continuity. However, the insufficient preparation led to a major drop in the learner's performance and his/her dissatisfaction with the learning experience. This may be due to several reasons, including the insensitivity of the virtual learning environment to the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Pandemics, COVID-19, Distance Education
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D.A.G. Ariyasinghe; Neelakshi Chandrasena Premawardhena – Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning, 2025
Self-Directed Language Learning (SDLL) which aims at developing learner autonomy, improves learner engagement since learners are able to use higher-level critical thinking. Thus, the present study was conducted in an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) classroom in Sri Lanka, in order to investigate how to incorporate Self-Directed Learning in the…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Independent Study
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Cheng, Xin; Ma, Xin-Yue; Luo, Chaohua; Chen, Jian; Wei, Wei; Yang, Xuesong – Advances in Physiology Education, 2021
Students' preferences and engagement with online educational resources and activities are crucial for academic success in the context of online medical education. This study investigated the preferences of Chinese medical students regarding the teaching strategies used by instructors and their relationship with course difficulty level, student's…
Descriptors: Correlation, Medical Students, Preferences, Electronic Learning
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Rosar, Michaela; Weidlich, Joshua – Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 2022
Creativity is an increasingly recognized construct in technology-enhanced learning. However, our understanding of how creativity interacts with the design of online learning environments to affect learning experiences is still limited. For example, do creative students benefit from different learning environment designs than those benefitting…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Creativity, Independent Study, Personality Traits
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April Hargreaves; Gerard Loughnane; Hau Nguyen; David Mothersill – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective COVID-19 forced third-level students to transition to online learning (OL). Many students encountered issues with OL, such as accessibility. However, the relationship between OL issues and mental health during this time remains poorly understood. Participants: Third-level students in Ireland (N = 268) completed an online questionnaire…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Online Courses, Student Attitudes, COVID-19
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Ozer, Omer; Badem, Nebahat – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
This study examines the impact of EFL learners' learning experiences in a virtual classroom on their academic motivation and achievement. It also explores students' reasons for changes in their motivations and their perspectives on learning a foreign language online. The study used the explanatory, sequential mixed-methods design. A total of 144…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Academic Achievement, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Kamal, Anju; Radhakrishnan, Souhreda – Education and Information Technologies, 2019
Differences in styles of learning have become important considerations at all levels of education over the last several years. Examining college students' preferred style of learning is useful for course design and effective instructional methods. Using the Felder-Silverman Index of Learning Styles (ILS), and MBTI Inventories we investigate the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Personality Traits, Preferences, Electronic Learning
Mobo, Froilan D. – Online Submission, 2022
The study examined how motivated strategies for learning contribute to the online learning readiness of Maritime students in a Maritime institution in Central Luzon during the Pandemic School Year of 2021-2022. It also determined the differences in the motivated strategies for learning and online readiness of the respondents when grouped according…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Online Courses, Educational Technology, Readiness
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Barbara Muszynska; Cristina A. Huertas-Abril – JALT CALL Journal, 2023
The purpose of this research is to analyze whether university students would be willing to engage in distance foreign language (FL) course design, and if the knowledge of their preferences could be used to present guidelines for course designers. Student engagement is seen as crucial to graduates' achievement in HE, especially in online courses,…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Attitudes
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Ivanjek, L.; Klein, P.; Geyer, M.-A.; Küchemann, S.; Jelicic, K.; Dahlkemper, M. N.; Susac, A. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
To investigate how physics students perceived the sudden shift to online learning at the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic, 18 semistructured interviews were conducted with university students in Austria, Croatia, and Germany. Based on the interviews, a questionnaire was developed and data from N ¼ 578 physics students from five universities in…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, COVID-19, Pandemics
Cervera-Saenz, Brenda Alicia – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Research has shown different participant perceptions, preferences, and satisfaction levels regarding several modes of instruction. The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to see to what degree a relationship exists between community college students' perceptions, preferences, and satisfaction in an online asynchronous and a…
Descriptors: Correlation, Student Attitudes, Preferences, Student Satisfaction
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Bessette, Harriet J.; Paris, Nita A. – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2020
In this study, teachers explored their professional identities by reflecting on their teaching role(s) and contexts through elicitation of textual (written) metaphors and visual (drawn) metaphors of teaching. Participants created impromptu drawings emblematic of their conceptualized metaphor. Analysis of participants' written metaphors and…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Teacher Attitudes, Reflection, Teaching Methods
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Crosslin, Matt – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2018
Open online courses provide a unique opportunity to examine learner preferences in an environment that removes several pressures associated with traditional learning. This mixed methods study sought to examine the pathways that learners will create for themselves when given the choice between an instructor-directed modality and learner-directed…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Independent Study, Preferences, Mixed Methods Research
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Kobayashi, Michiko – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2017
This study examined students' preferred media in online learning and its relationship with learner characteristics and online technology self-efficacy. One hundred six college students in a mid-size U.S. university responded to a survey. The frequency analysis showed that students did not necessarily favor rich media over lean media in online…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Preferences, Social Media
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Rosar, Michaela; Lipka, Alexander; Weidlich, Joshua; Bastiaens, Theo – International Journal on E-Learning, 2018
This quasi-experimental study compares preferences for the amount of instructional guidance between creative and noncreative learners. Instructional guidance is implemented as a two-level factor represented as two variants of a visual design task, only differing in the amount of verbal guidance they gave. Dependent preference outcomes were…
Descriptors: Creativity, Web Based Instruction, Questionnaires, Comparative Analysis
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