Journal Article

The Application of Web and Educational Technologies in Supporting Web-Enabled Self-Regulated Learning in Different Computing Course Orientations

Shen, Pei-Di, Tsai, Chia-Wen

2011

Overview

Many educational institutions provide online courses; however, the question whether they can be as effective as those offered in the face-to-face classroom format still exists. In addition, it also remains unclear whether every subject is appropriate to be delivered in web-based learning environments. Thus, the authors redesigned two courses with different orientations and conducted a quasi-experiment to examine the effects of web-enabled self-regulated learning (SRL) in different course orientations on students’ computing skills. Four classes with 173 students from the courses ‘Database Management System’ and ‘Packaged Software and Application’ were divided into 2 (Design-oriented vs. Procedural-oriented) × 2 (SRL vs. non-SRL) experimental groups. The results showed that students who received the intervention of web-enabled SRL had significantly higher grades on the examination for certificates than those that did not receive this intervention, whether in design-oriented or procedural-oriented computing courses. Moreover, students in the two different courses had very similar scores, which resulted in non-significant differences in their end-of-term computing skills.

• Publisher: IGI Global
• Subject: CAI / Certificates / Classrooms / Computation / Computer assisted instruction / Data base management systems / Distance learning / Education / Educational technology / Elementary school students / Experimental Groups / Intervention / Learning / Learning environment / Management Systems / On-line systems / Online instruction / Orientation / Packages, Computer software / Self directed learning / Self regulation / Skills / Software engineering / Students / Teaching methods