Exploring the effects of web-mediated socially-shared regulation of learning and experience-based learning on improving students’ learning

ABSTRACT

The application of online learning and educational technologies in higher education has changed teaching methods, the channels of delivering learning materials, and modes of communication between teachers and students. This study is aimed to improve learning effects and investigate, via quasi-experiments, the effects of web-mediated socially-shared regulation of learning (SSRL) and experience-based learning (ExBL) on improving students’ learning results. The experimental design in this study was a 2 (SSRL vs. non-SSRL) × 2 (ExBL vs. non-ExBL) factorial pretest/post-test design. Four classes in a one-semester course titled “Applied Information Technology: Data Processing” at university level were chosen for this study. Based on the analysis carried out in this study, students who received the treatments of web-mediated SSRL and/or ExBL did not have significantly better computing skills in using Excel. The reasons for these insignificances and implications thereof are discussed in this paper. Nevertheless, students in the SSRL and non-ExBL class had significant increases in scores for their learning motivation at the end of semester compared with the beginning.

KEYWORDS:

• Web-mediated socially-shared regulation of learning
• web-mediated experience-based learning
• information education
• learning motivation
• e-learning

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes on contributors

Chia-Wen Tsai is a Professor in the Department of Information Management, Ming Chuan University. Professor Tsai is one of the Editors-in-Chief of International Journal of Online Pedagogy and Course Design, and International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction. He is also the Associate Editor of Higher Education Research & Development, and Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. He is interested in online teaching methods and knowledge management. Readers can contact him by email: [email protected].

Pei-Di Shen is a Professor in the Graduate School of Education, Ming Chuan University, Taipei, Taiwan. Professor Shen is one of the Editors-in-Chief of International Journal of Online Pedagogy and Course Design. Her primary interest areas are E-learning, Knowledge Management, Virtual Community, and Management Information Systems. Her research focus is distance delivery in higher education. Readers can contact her by email: [email protected].

I-Chun Chiang, M.Ed., is a PhD student in the Department of Business Management, Ming Chuan University, Taiwan. Her paper appeared in British Journal of Educational Technology, Journal of Educational Technology & Society, Behaviour & Information Technology, and Universal Access in the Information Society. Readers can contact her by email: [email protected].

Wen-Yu Chen is an Associate Professor in the Department and Graduate School of Tourism Management, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan. Her research interests include tourism marketing, organization buying behavior and Asian consumer behavior. Dr. Chen had published articles in the Tourism Management, Service Industries Journal, and Tourism Economics, Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research etc.

Yi-Fen Chen is a Professor in the Department of International Business at the Chung Yuan Christian University, Taoyuan City, Taiwan. Her research interests include Internet marketing, consumer behavior, electronic commerce, information management, and business management. Her paper appeared in Psychology & Marketing, Computers in Human Behavior, Journal of Consumer Behaviour, Electronic Commerce Research, and others.