Statistical Analysis and Discussion on Factors Affecting Emotional Experience of Online Learners

Abstract

There emerged the poor emotional experience for online learners in the classroom teaching empowered by information technology. Through teaching practice of and investigation on three classes with different online teaching forms, Spearman's p-correlation analysis showed that the challenge and the relevance of online learning content were highly positively related to learners' emotional engagement, their senses of learning effectiveness and the difficulty of learning content were moderately positively related to emotional engagement. Multiple linear regression showed that both cognitive and behavioral engagements positively and significantly predicted emotional engagement, and a standardized regression formulation was derived. Based on the above study, the implementation of emotional motivation strategy, emotional scaffolding strategy, emotional identification strategy, and emotional exchange strategy will enhance online learners' experience and achieve the expected online learning outcomes.