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Melissa T. A. Simarmata; Gwo-Guang Lee; Hoky Ajicahyadi; Kung-Jeng Wang – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Teaching computer programming language remotely presents particular difficulties due to its requirement for abstract and logical thinking. There is a dearth of research specifically examining the potential factors that determine student performance when distance self-learning is conducted for programming language education. This study aims to…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Independent Study, Computer Science Education, Programming
Durnali, Mehmet; Orakçi, Senol; Toraman, Çetin – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2022
About four million people living in Turkey or abroad with a Turkish passport enrolled in distance education schools to have the opportunity to complete their compulsory formal education in the spring of 2018-19. The aim of this descriptive study was to determine distance education students' acceptance of online learning systems, their attitudes…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Online Courses, Student Attitudes, Difficulty Level
Çetin, Baris – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2022
This study aims to determine whether university students' levels of online self-regulated learning, online technologies self-efficacy, and motivated strategies for learning predict their general academic achievement and online academic achievement. In this study, the scanning design and the prediction research design were used. The participants of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Independent Study, Electronic Learning
Rosalba Esparragoza – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of the study was to investigate whether intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, task value, metacognitive self-regulation, self-efficacy for learning, and cumulative GPA predicts academic success among college students enrolled in remote, asynchronous Elementary Spanish I and II courses. The study was conducted during the Summer…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learning Motivation, Metacognition, Independent Study
Hacatrjana, Liena – Journal of Intelligence, 2022
The relation between academic achievement and various measurements of cognitive abilities, problem-solving skills and self-managed learning has been established in the research before the COVID-19 pandemic and distance learning. The aim of the current research was to analyze the extent to which these aspects predicted the educational achievement…
Descriptors: Grade 9, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
Lepp, Andrew; Barkley, Jacob E.; Karpinski, Aryn C.; Singh, Shweta – SAGE Open, 2019
This study compared college students' multitasking in online courses with their multitasking in face-to-face courses and explored the significance of potential predictors of multitasking in each setting. Students taking both online and face-to-face courses completed surveys assessing multitasking in each setting, self-efficacy for self-regulated…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Behavior, Time Management, Online Courses
Holzer, Julia; Lüftenegger, Marko; Korlat, Selma; Pelikan, Elisabeth; Salmela-Aro, Katariina; Spiel, Christiane; Schober, Barbara – AERA Open, 2021
In the wake of COVID-19, university students have experienced fundamental changes of their learning and their lives as a whole. The present research identifies psychological characteristics associated with students' well-being in this situation. We investigated relations of basic psychological need satisfaction (experienced competence, autonomy,…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Needs, Competence, Predictor Variables
Kirby, Dale; Barbour, Michael K.; Sharpe, Dennis B. – American Journal of Distance Education, 2012
University students who had completed at least one distance education course were surveyed during their first and fourth year of postsecondary studies. When controlled for those who had previous distance education experience in high school, it was found that self-regulatory learning behaviors, which are frequently linked to positive experiences…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Web Based Instruction, Electronic Learning, Independent Study
Araeipour, Mohammad R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study compared traditional and distance education delivery platforms (onsite, hybrid, and online) at the college level in an urban setting in terms of student success, measured by final course grades and identified predictors of student success. The study examined the role of variables (prior knowledge of mathematics, language, gender,…
Descriptors: Conventional Instruction, Distance Education, Comparative Analysis, Undergraduate Students
Lai, Horng-Ji – Educational Technology & Society, 2011
This study examined the effect of civil servants' Self-Directed Learning Readiness (SDLR) and network literacy on their online learning effectiveness in a web-based training program. Participants were 283 civil servants enrolled in an asynchronous online learning program through an e-learning portal provided by the Regional Civil Service…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Web Based Instruction, Computer Literacy, Asynchronous Communication
Peer reviewedTsay, Mei-Huei; Morgan, George; Quick, Don – Distance Education, 2000
Evaluated distance students' ratings of the importance of strategies to facilitate self-directed learning in the National Open University, Taiwan. Topics include content validity; differences between current and inactive students, including motivation; institutional support services; orientation programs; instructional styles; course design; and…
Descriptors: Content Validity, Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education

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