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Discovering the Type of Motivation and Corresponding Regulatory Processes That Drives Asynchronous Online Discussion Activities

Prior research has revealed that students have different attitudes towards online activities for learning, in our case, asynchronous online discussions (AOD). We have seen students participating due to either rewards given, their own learning purposes or just lurking around. The objective of this...

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Main Authors: Siew, Woei Ling, Chien, Sing Lee, Kee, Man Chuah, Ah, Choo Koo
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, UNIMAS 2012
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AC Collections. Series. Collected works
L Education (General)
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spelling my.unimas.ir.7252015-03-19T02:33:16Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/725/ Discovering the Type of Motivation and Corresponding Regulatory Processes That Drives Asynchronous Online Discussion Activities Siew, Woei Ling Chien, Sing Lee Kee, Man Chuah Ah, Choo Koo AC Collections. Series. Collected works L Education (General) Prior research has revealed that students have different attitudes towards online activities for learning, in our case, asynchronous online discussions (AOD). We have seen students participating due to either rewards given, their own learning purposes or just lurking around. The objective of this paper is to identify the students’ self-regulation processes while learning informally through surveys carried out using the Behavioural Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire. Through a series of case studies carried out from 2008 till 2011 on 402 participants, the findings revealed that identified regulation had the highest mean score while non-regulation received the lowest mean score. This implies that some students often viewed the AOD as providing some value and benefit to their learning. However, due to some reasons, some other students could not participate actively, even with the prospect of receiving rewards. It is thus important for an instructor to investigate the reasons instead of offering rewards to encourage active participation because too much reward can become detrimental to the intrinsic motivation of a student. It also becomes crucial for the instructor to develop scaffolds based on identified regulation processes, i.e. personal importance and conscious valuing. These scaffolds will eventually enable students to progress from a lower degree of self-determination or autonomy to intrinsically-motivated self-determination or autonomy Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, UNIMAS 2012 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/725/1/Discovering%2Bthe%2BType%2Bof%2BMotivation%2Band%2BCorresponding%2BRegulatory%2528abstract%2529.pdf Siew, Woei Ling and Chien, Sing Lee and Kee, Man Chuah and Ah, Choo Koo (2012) Discovering the Type of Motivation and Corresponding Regulatory Processes That Drives Asynchronous Online Discussion Activities. In: 2012 International Conference on Management and Education Innovation IPEDR vol.37 (2012), Singapore.
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topic AC Collections. Series. Collected works
L Education (General)
spellingShingle AC Collections. Series. Collected works
L Education (General)
Siew, Woei Ling
Chien, Sing Lee
Kee, Man Chuah
Ah, Choo Koo
Discovering the Type of Motivation and Corresponding Regulatory Processes That Drives Asynchronous Online Discussion Activities
description Prior research has revealed that students have different attitudes towards online activities for learning, in our case, asynchronous online discussions (AOD). We have seen students participating due to either rewards given, their own learning purposes or just lurking around. The objective of this paper is to identify the students’ self-regulation processes while learning informally through surveys carried out using the Behavioural Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire. Through a series of case studies carried out from 2008 till 2011 on 402 participants, the findings revealed that identified regulation had the highest mean score while non-regulation received the lowest mean score. This implies that some students often viewed the AOD as providing some value and benefit to their learning. However, due to some reasons, some other students could not participate actively, even with the prospect of receiving rewards. It is thus important for an instructor to investigate the reasons instead of offering rewards to encourage active participation because too much reward can become detrimental to the intrinsic motivation of a student. It also becomes crucial for the instructor to develop scaffolds based on identified regulation processes, i.e. personal importance and conscious valuing. These scaffolds will eventually enable students to progress from a lower degree of self-determination or autonomy to intrinsically-motivated self-determination or autonomy
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Siew, Woei Ling
Chien, Sing Lee
Kee, Man Chuah
Ah, Choo Koo
author_facet Siew, Woei Ling
Chien, Sing Lee
Kee, Man Chuah
Ah, Choo Koo
author_sort Siew, Woei Ling
title Discovering the Type of Motivation and Corresponding Regulatory Processes That Drives Asynchronous Online Discussion Activities
title_short Discovering the Type of Motivation and Corresponding Regulatory Processes That Drives Asynchronous Online Discussion Activities
title_full Discovering the Type of Motivation and Corresponding Regulatory Processes That Drives Asynchronous Online Discussion Activities
title_fullStr Discovering the Type of Motivation and Corresponding Regulatory Processes That Drives Asynchronous Online Discussion Activities
title_full_unstemmed Discovering the Type of Motivation and Corresponding Regulatory Processes That Drives Asynchronous Online Discussion Activities
title_sort discovering the type of motivation and corresponding regulatory processes that drives asynchronous online discussion activities
publisher Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, UNIMAS
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