Volume 29, Issue 5, 2020
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.1052
Effect of e-learning environmental stimuli on learning engagement in the context of COVID-19
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic at the beginning of 2020 has changed the conventional learning mode for most students at schools all over the world, and the e-learning at home has become a new trend. Taking Chinese college students as the research subject and drawing on the stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) model, this paper examines the relationship between the peer referent, perceived closeness and perceived control and the learning engagement. Using data from 377 college students who have used the e-learning, this study shows that perceived closeness, perceived control and peer referents in e-learning have a positive effect on the self-efficacy and well-being of students, thus improving students’ enthusiasm for learning. Our intent is to assist researchers, instructors, designers, and others in identifying effective methods to conceptualize and measure student engagement in e-learning.
Keywords
COVID-19, e-learning, environmental stimuli, learning involvement, SOR model