An Analysis About Factors for Enhancing, Decreasing, and Retarding Learning Experience Level in Higher Education

Abstract

This study’s purpose was to clarify methods of effectively promoting student engagement within higher education classes in Japan. To that end, a qualitative survey was performed of university students, based on the concept of learning experience (LX) levels. Via textual analyses of collected data, respective factors were extracted that affect the increase, decline, and stagnation of learning-experience levels. Then, differences between these factors were verified. Consequently, the following were found to have positive effects on increasing learning experience levels: interesting subject, value recognition, sense of progress in learning, clarity of attended classes, class format, and relatedness to the future. Moreover, the following were suggested as positively affecting a decrease of LX level: decline of interest/motivation regarding the subject and the study circumstances of other classes. Also observed as contributing to the stagnation of LX level were a decline of interest/motivation around the subject and study circumstances in other classes.