Abstract
This paper investigates the students’ self-regulated learning in elementary education when traditional teaching method, which is teacher centered in a classroom, is replaced with a blended approach enriched with open educational resources. Various open educational resources such as videos, simulations, and learning games are readily available on the Web. In addition, mobile and classroom technologies, such as portable devices can be considered as teaching tools in education. The good use of these educational resources and technologies can not only assist students’ formal classroom learning but also cultivate the self-regulated learning of students. The i-Classroom implemented in an elementary school adopted a new teaching method, which made use of the online educational resources and information technology, to achieve this goal. Three surveys (Sample size N = 149, N = 168, N = 150) were conducted to investigate the effectiveness of promoting three key aspects of self-regulated learning: learning motivation, planning and management, and self-monitoring. Focus group interviewed was also carried out to collect the feedback in i-classroom learning. The results show that i-Classroom can help students to enhance their ability in self-regulated learning.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 51-77 |
| Number of pages | 27 |
| Journal | Journal of Computers in Education |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Early online date | 19 Apr 2019 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Mar 2020 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
A preliminary version of this article has been published in the 2018 International Symposium on Educational Technology (Wong et al. 2018b). This article has been extensively rewritten and extended by adding sufficient new contents and findings according to regulations of the Journal of Computers in Education.Funding
The work described in this paper was partially supported by a grant from the RGC of the HKSAR, China (UGC/IDS16/15). Haoran Xie’s work in this paper has been supported by the Individual Research Scheme of the Dean’s Research Fund 2017–2018 (FLASS/DRF/IRS-8), Seed Fund (SFG-6), and Top-up Fund (TFG-3) for General Research Fund/Early Career Scheme of the 2018 Dean’s Research Fund to MIT Department of The Education University of Hong Kong. Di Zou’s work has been supported by the Standing Committee on Language Education and Research, Education Bureau (EDB(LE)/P&R/EL/175/2) and the Funding Support to ECS Proposal Rated 3.5 (RG16/2018-2019R), The Education University of Hong Kong.
Keywords
- Learning motivation
- Open educational resources
- Planning and management
- Self-monitoring
- SELF-regulated learning