Student Emotional Characteristics of Online Discussion Posts and Their Self-Regulated Learning Skills

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Abstract

The importance of self-regulated learning (SRL) skills is increasing with the emerging practices for more personal, social, and participatory online learning approaches aimed to offer students more control in their learning activities. At the same time, the availability of relational behavior, social, and emotional data offers the additional opportunities to better understand students’ socio-emotional evolvement in online discussion. The current study examined the trends of the sentiments in student online discussion posts and if students’ SRL skills moderated the trends over time. The findings suggested that, overall, positive sentiment of discussion posts remained stable but negative sentiment of discussion posts was exacerbating over time. Furthermore, student SRL skills had no bearing on the trends over time.

Authors

• Cherng-Jyh Yen, Old Dominion University

• Chih-Hsiung Tu, Northern Arizona University

• E. Emre Ozkeskin, Anadolu University

• Hoda Harati, North arizona university

• Christina Gabaldon, Northern Arizona University

• Laura Esthela Sujo-Montes, Northern Arizona University