{"title":"Why do students disengage from online courses?","authors":"Sacide Güzin Mazman Akar","doi":"10.1016/j.iheduc.2024.100948","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>One of the most significant issues with online education is that students disengage and eventually drop out of the course due to their inability to remain active in the online environment. Thus, disengagement from online courses has been seen as an important obstacle to the successful continuation of the online learning process. This study aimed to empirically explore the disengagement from online courses with a proposed model. A structural model was tested to explain the causal relationship among disengagement, cyberloafing, self-regulation skills, and satisfaction in online learning. The study group consisted of 843 undergraduates from a midsized institution in Turkey who were enrolled in an online course at the time of the study. Results showed that cyberloafing and satisfaction were significant predictors of disengagement, while self-regulation had an indirect effect on it. The study's findings indicated that online instructors and educational policymakers should focus more on fostering satisfaction and enhancing students' self-regulation abilities while keeping cyberloafing under control to prevent disengagement from online courses in the age of digital transformation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48186,"journal":{"name":"Internet and Higher Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.4000,"publicationDate":"2024-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Internet and Higher Education","FirstCategoryId":"95","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1096751624000101","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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One of the most significant issues with online education is that students disengage and eventually drop out of the course due to their inability to remain active in the online environment. Thus, disengagement from online courses has been seen as an important obstacle to the successful continuation of the online learning process. This study aimed to empirically explore the disengagement from online courses with a proposed model. A structural model was tested to explain the causal relationship among disengagement, cyberloafing, self-regulation skills, and satisfaction in online learning. The study group consisted of 843 undergraduates from a midsized institution in Turkey who were enrolled in an online course at the time of the study. Results showed that cyberloafing and satisfaction were significant predictors of disengagement, while self-regulation had an indirect effect on it. The study's findings indicated that online instructors and educational policymakers should focus more on fostering satisfaction and enhancing students' self-regulation abilities while keeping cyberloafing under control to prevent disengagement from online courses in the age of digital transformation.
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The Internet and Higher Education is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal focused on contemporary issues and future trends in online learning, teaching, and administration within post-secondary education. It welcomes contributions from diverse academic disciplines worldwide and provides a platform for theory papers, research studies, critical essays, editorials, reviews, case studies, and social commentary.
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