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Mitra, Sugata; Dangwal, Ritu – Prospects, 2022
The "hole-in-the-wall" experiments of 1999, as named by the popular media, started with an Internet-connected computer being embedded in a wall facing a slum in Kalkaji, New Delhi, India. Several studies showed that groups of children, when given access to the Internet, can learn by themselves. Children's academic marks improved, and…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Internet, Foreign Countries, Independent Study
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Bing Liu; Jing Liu; Qianrong Yang – International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 2024
This study explores online self-regulated learning skills among high school students in three schools in China's EAST City Y using questionnaires. Results reveal the online self-regulated learning skills of high school students are positioned at an intermediate level, showcasing noteworthy disparities across distinct cohorts of high school…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Student Attitudes, Metacognition, Independent Study
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Kurnaz, Ahmet; Kaynar, Hamza; Sentürk Barisik, Canan; Dogrukök, Baris – International Journal of Modern Education Studies, 2021
This study aims to examine distance education practices of universities in Turkey during coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic according to views of undergraduate students. The method of this study is designed in the survey model. The study group consists of 1561 students studying at 44 universities. Simple random sampling method was used while…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Distance Education
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Desmet, Ophelie; Crimmins, Danielle; Seigfried-Spellar, Kathryn C.; Gentry, Marcia – Gifted Education International, 2022
The present study used an explanatory mixed-method design to examine the effects of the Achievement Motivation Enhancement (AME)+Cyber enrichment program and teachers' perception of procedures and outcomes in the context of emergency remote teaching, including online and hybrid formats, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Three teachers implemented the…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Teacher Attitudes, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Mello, Luciane V. – Research in Learning Technology, 2016
The research question for this study was: "Can the provision of online resources help to engage and motivate students to become self-directed learners?" This study presents the results of an action research project to answer this question for a postgraduate module at a research-intensive university in the United Kingdom. The analysis of…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Learner Engagement, Independent Study, Teaching Methods
Blanton, Eric Glenn – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The integration of technology within the lives of all people has continued to expand and also impacts the education systems around the world. The purpose of this study was to study how real-time data impacted the educational achievement of students in a senior level economics class who participated in game-based learning through the Marketwatch…
Descriptors: High School Students, Learner Engagement, Comprehension, Educational Games
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Ng, Wan – Teaching Science, 2008
With research consistently showing that students can be motivated to learn with ICT, this case study sought to investigate Year 7 students' learning about simple machines in an ICT-enhanced environment where they could self-direct their own learning with minimal intervention from the teacher. The study is focused on how well do students and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Learning Motivation, Science Curriculum, Web Sites
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Proske, Antje; Narciss, Susanne; Korndle, Hermann – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2007
Several practitioners and researchers consider interactivity as the essential mechanism for effective and successful self-regulated learning within web-based learning environments. Even so, there are few studies that address the question of how students deal with the interactivity provided and how this may be related to their achievement. To…
Descriptors: Internet, Web Based Instruction, Interaction, Academic Achievement
Lawrence, Arul A. S. – Online Submission, 2015
The XX IDEA annual conference has been focused and reflected on different ways and means of meeting various kinds of methodological challenges, new technologies and multi-media developments, newly emerging partnerships and collaboration between emerging sectors on one hand and between the institutions functioning with similar objectives and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Education, Distance Education, Barriers
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Bell, Paul D. – Education, 2007
This study examined the effects of self-regulated learning (SRL) and epistemological beliefs (EB) on individual learner levels of academic achievement in Web-based learning environments while holding constant the effect of computer self-efficacy, reason for taking an online course, prior college academic achievement, and parental level of…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Grade Point Average, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement