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A Study of the Effects of Learner Characteristics on the Self-Regulated Learning Ability: A Comparison of Korea and China

  • HONG, Zhao;IM, Yeonwook;LI, Chen
    • Educational Technology International
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.59-85
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of the study is to report differences in the effects of learner characteristics on the self-regulated learning (SRL) abilities between Chinese and Korean distance learners by using a structured SRL scale. A standardized 54-item self-regulated learning scale (SRAS) was used. The reliability was tested both in China and Korea which showed the scale had good reliability. The comparative study were conducted by administering the SRAS on 1999 Chinese distance learners from the Open Distance Education Center of Beijing Normal University and 1941 Korean distance learners from H Cyber University. Data on four dimensions of SRL - planning, control, regulating, and evaluation - were analyzed using 't-test' and 'ANOVA' with regards to the learner characteristics such as gender, age, prior education level, semesters, location and major. Results indicated that the average participant had an above medium level of SRL ability in all of the four dimensions. There were significant differences in the self-regulated learning ability between Chinese and Korean distance learners. Chinese distance learners scored higher in SRAS than Korean distance learners. The effects of learner characteristics on the SRL ability showed different patterns in the two countries. As for gender, male learners scored better in SRL than female learners in China, whereas it was just the opposite in Korea. No age differences were found in China, but Korean data exhibited a consistent age effect in all dimensions. In Korea, the age group older than 46 scored the highest, followed by the group between 35 to 45 years old, the group between 26 to 35 years old and the group younger than 25. As for location, Korean distance students from metropolitan were better than those from other regions, whereas it was on the contrary in China, albeit the location effect was not statistically significant. Prior education level had a clear and consistent effect on the SRL ability in both countries: the distance learners from junior colleges had better planning, regulating and evaluating abilities than those who came from senior high schools. These results have been discussed in various contexts of distance/online education as well as in relation to different culture between China and Korea. The results will also have implications for designing distance and online learning generally.

The Influence of the Presence Perceived by Learners and Participation Motivation on Satisfaction in Distance Education (원격교육에서 성인학습자의 교육참여동기와 실재감이 학습만족도에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Jae-Eun;Yu, Byeong-Min;Park, Hye-Jin
    • Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.233-243
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    • 2015
  • This study is for understanding differences of satisfaction followed by learning and teaching presence perceived by learners and participation motivation on learning in a distance education. General characteristics of learner are classified as an entrance type, sex, age, new/transfer of distance university learners. Perceived presence is classified with learning presence and teaching presence. Participation motivation on learning is classified with the directivity of activity, goal, and study based on the reason of participating in classes in a distance university. And this research tried out to find the effects of learner's characteristics, perceived presence, and participation motivation on learning satisfaction. The results are as follows. First, there was no meaningful difference of general characteristic on satisfaction. It means sex, age, and entrance type did not have an effect on satisfaction. Second, with the level of presence perceived by learner, satisfaction has meaningful differences. It means that students who had higher learning presence perceived of distance university showed higher satisfaction, and so as in teaching presence perceived on satisfaction. Third, factors effecting satisfaction based on participation motivation on learning differ with types of motivation. There was no meaningful difference of the level of activity directivity study participant on satisfaction, but was a meaningful difference of goal directivity and of study directivity in participation motivation on learning satisfaction. It was the learning presence that had a significant effect on learning satisfaction of adult learning.

The Cooperation System Development for the Self-production of Content between Instructor and Learner (교수-학습자간의 콘텐츠 자체 제작을 위한 협력 시스템 개발)

  • Kim, Ho Jin;Kim, Chang Soo
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.21 no.11
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    • pp.1297-1304
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    • 2018
  • Online education, commonly referred to as distance education, has developed rapidly. However, it is questionable whether such distance education has been applied to various educational fields and has achieved satisfactory results in terms of learning effect. One of the reasons for not maximizing the benefits of distance education is non-dynamicity in the production and application of educational content. Educational contents production is made up of collaborative work between the instructor who is the contents expert and the developer who is the production expert. For this reason, existing researches have also concentrated on the improvement of each educational effect. In this paper, we propose to replace a production expert from a developer to an instructor. At this time, the important point is that the educational contents produced by the instructor, who is a development non-expert, should still be able to be maintained with high-quality contents utilizing the characteristics of the web. For this purpose, the production system was developed based on open source to maintain the quality similar to the educational contents developed by the production expert. This will increase the effectiveness of education by applying the developed Smart-Blended Learning System to various educational sites.

The Effects of Web Based Distance Learning upon Learning Achievement: The Moderating Effects of System Interactions (웹 기반 원격교육의 학업성취에 미치는 영향: 시스템 상호작용의 조절효과 관점에서)

  • Kim, In-Jai;Park, Wee-Joan;Go, Wan-Young;Lee, Yeon-Jung
    • The Journal of Information Systems
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.111-126
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    • 2009
  • A high-speed Internet has brought a rapid spread of Web Based Distance Learning(WBDL). Even though the WBDL was considered a new methodology to overcome the limitation of a traditional education, it evolves not as alternatives but as strategic augmenting tools for a traditional face-to-face education. The WBDL systems accommodate diverse services such as e-Learning, e-Mentoring, and Blended Learning in order to give satisfactions to learners and increase the learning effectiveness. This study suggested the WBDL system's and learner's characteristics as two major affecting factors, in which two independent variables were respectively selected. A mediating effect of learning motivation between the independent variables and learning achievement was empirically tested. The interactions between the WBDL sysrem and learners were also tested on the view points of the moderating effects between the learning motivation and the learning achievement. The results showed that the mediating effects of learning motivation and the moderating effects of the system interactions were statistically significant.

The Design and Implementation of Databank System Based on the Web (웹을 기반으로 한 문제은행 시스템 설계 및 구현)

  • Nah, Jong-Seok;Ko, Byung-Oh
    • Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.202-211
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    • 2001
  • Learner-oriented education and distance education based on Information & Communication technology are educational countermeasure to various demands of Information age. Especially Web has the characteristics of providing proper environments for implementing constructivism study theory. Yet, existing web-based evaluation system is implemented by HTML and Java script so it has low interaction and imperfect educational effects. Therefore, We evaluated students' study understanding ability of real-time distance education system and analyzed evaluation results to offer useful information for level study considering individual variation. In this thesis, with these results, we designed and implemented interworking and multimedia databank system without time and space limitations on Client/Server environment.

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A Study on an Application of HyFlex Learning Model for Early Childhood Education in the PostCOVID-19 era (PostCOVID-19 시대 유아교육을 위한 HyFlex 수업모형의 적용 가능성 탐색)

  • Kim, Sun-Hee
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.19 no.12
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    • pp.311-320
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    • 2021
  • This study aims to explore the applicability of the HyFlex Learning Model as a new form of early childhood education in the post-COVID-19 era. In order to achieve the purpose of this study, first, the current challenges of early childhood education and the form of early childhood distance education in Korea were examined. Second, after examining the outline and characteristics of the HyFlex Learning Model(HLM) and the application cases of overseas institutions, in particular, the cases of applying the HLM in overseas early childhood education institutions were reviewed. Third, things to consider when applying the HLM in the field of early childhood education in Korea were derived. As a result, the HLM was investigated to be applicable not only in higher education but also in early childhood education as a model that emphasizes the learner's choice, learner-centered/directed, and activity. In order to apply the HLM to the early childhood education field in Korea, several points to be considered were proposed. Finally, the contribution of this study and further study were suggested.

Web-Based Teaching-Learning System of Mobile Agent (이동 에이전트를 활용한 웹기반 교수-학습시스템)

  • Ko, Ju-Yeon;Park, Sun-Ju
    • Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.216-229
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    • 2001
  • A more interactive teaching-learning system is increasingly necessary in the consumer-oriented environment of distance education. This article would like to suggest a more spontaneous system which is learners at various levels. The suggested system keynotes its efficiency with the introduction of a "mobile agent" concept through which learners are able to network and complete their assignments despite their dispersed environments. This article also suggests some managerial techniques for the systematic management of agent-based learners possessing diverse characteristics. Through this study, we expect more highly effect by offer data adapted to learning goal to learner's ability, get out of uniform web-based teaching-learning.

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Factors Influencing the Learning Effectiveness and Transfer of e-Learning in Business Organlizations (기업의 e-Learning에 대한 학습효과 및 전이에 영향을 미치는 요인)

  • Jung Kyung-Soo;Kim Kyung-Jun
    • The Journal of Information Systems
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.1-29
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    • 2006
  • The recent development of IT, consolidation of communication and multimedia technology have brought enormous changes in many organizations. Theses changes are enabling the new educational opportunities such as distance teaming and virtual class room. Recently, e-Learning has grown rapidly in business training field, In the context of companies, e-Learning has merits in terms of access convenience, costs reduction self-directed learning, reciprocity, and flexibility. In this regard, the primary purpose of this study is to investigate which factors of e-Learning influence the effectiveness of education and transfer of loaming in business organizations. Based on the prior studies of the education and business training field, research model and research hypotheses were developed. Factors studied in this paper were as follows: 1) learners' characteristics, 2) organizational support and 3) system environments. The results of our study are as follows. (1) Motivation perceived usefulness in Learner factors had an significant influence on both learning effectiveness and transfer of teaming, whereas Ability, expectation had an influence on transfer of teaming. (2) Support from peer, support from supervisor in Organization factors had an significant influence on both Loaming effectiveness and transfer of teaming, whereas support from organization had influence on learning effectiveness. (3) Appropriate contents in system circumstance had an significant influence on both teaming effectiveness and transfer of teaming, whereas interface design had an influence on learning effectiveness.

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The Needs Assessment of Middle School Students for Practical Reasoning Home Economics Classes in the Distance Learning Environment (원격학습 환경에서 가정교과 실천적 추론 과정에 대한 중학생의 요구도 조사연구)

  • Choi, Seong-Youn
    • Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.1-16
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    • 2021
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the needs of middle school students for the practical reasoning in a distance learning environment, to verify the needs differences based on the learner's personal characteristics, student-teacher interaction, and student-student interaction, and to investigate the relationships among student-teacher interaction, voluntary participation of students, and the students' perception of the extent to which practical reasoning is implemented in distance learning. For this purpose, 1,842 middle school students from seven schools in Gyeonggi, Daejeon, Chungbuk, and Sejong areas were surveyed online to investigate the importance of the practical reasoning questions and the how much practical reasoning is implemented in current distance learning. Among them, 1,095 responses were used for final analysis and descriptive statistics, independent sample t-test, one-way ANOVA, and path analysis were conducted. As a result of the study, first, middle school students acknowledged that the practical reasoning was important with the importance average 3.76. Based on the locus for focus model, the priorities of the needs in home economics class were examined, and the values and importance of the problem, and the ramification of the solution were considered to be of high priority. Second, characteristics of middle school students, student-teacher interaction and student-student interaction were found to have positive influence on needs for practical reasoning, while no difference were found by gender or voluntary participation in distance learning. Third, the voluntary participation of students and the student-teacher interaction in distance learning had a positive (+) significant effect on perceived implementation of practical reasoning, yet negative (-) significant effect on needs for practical reasoning.

Design and Implementation of Web-Based Self-directed Learning System for Word Processor Qualifying Exams (워드프로세서 자격증 시험을 위한 웹 기반 자기 주도적 학습 시스템 설계 및 구현)

  • Yang, Yun-Jeong;Kim, Chang-Suk
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.43-48
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    • 2006
  • The educational system has been changed owing to Web, which is most actively used on internet and has the characteristics of providing suitable environments for implementing constructivism study theory. WBI(Web Based Instruction), web-mediated teaching form for students at a long distance, has the advantages of possible interact between instructors and learners, offering a great variety of learning materials, and overcome the spatiotemporal restriction. This paper focuces on the construction of learning surroundings where the learner-centered, active learning can be done by design and Implementation of web based instruct system providing a sham examination with an item pool system. The web based Self-directed Learning system for word processor qualifying exams on this paper, can be mentioned as a real item pool that the question is not setting each time by the instructors but can be reused by reference on item pool bank, designed the number of question. It helps the learner Self-directed Learning study with evaluation during the web based instruct process and immediate feedback. It also provides the chance to research some similar using keyword. To sum up, this system can amplify the efficiency of study.