Online Learning: Effects of Motivation and Problem Solving on Learner Efficacy

• In Event: Poster Session 19
  In Poster Session: Online Learners’ Strategies, Attitudes, and Behaviors

Abstract

Technology education research is aggressively addressing the need to design instruction using learning theories that can help in understanding how people learn and how intellectual skills are developed within online environments. Drawing on Social Constructivism, this research investigated the relationships of four constructs. The goal of this research was to execute an exploratory model of learning efficacy at the model level to identify the relationships and possible predictors of an online student’s learning efficacy. Predictors included the student’s Self-Determination, Self-Regulation, Problem Solving Skills, and General Efficacy. The research suggested evidence and predictability of a person’s learning efficacy encouraging further review of the individual constructs of problem solving and exploration of the evidence of increased academic success in online environments.

Authors

• Michelle L. Rosser, The University of Oklahoma

• Tammy C. Pannells, University of Oklahoma