Development of an “Online-based Learning Skills Enhancement Program” to Promote Self-regulated Learning: Instructional Devices to Suit On-line Learning and Effects of the Program

Abstract

  Because of the expanding COVID-19, it has become more important that students acquire learning skills by themselves and become self-regulated learners. Considering such circumstances with COVID-19, motivation for using ICT in education at schools is relatively higher than in earlier years. The current study has developed an "online-based learning skills improvement program" conducted in a public high school to support students' learning skills for studying by themselves. The participants were 33 10th-grade students who voluntarily participated in the program. The program included six sessions and gave concrete instructions on how to study more in-depth. As a result, students showed an orientation toward self-regulated learning, such as a proactive attitude toward analyzing their failure and utilizing it in subsequent learning. The current paper also discusses the factors and conditions of change in learners' behaviours.