Influences That Undermine Learners' Perceptions of Autonomy, Competence and Relatedness in an Online Context

Autor/in	Hartnett, Maggie
Titel	Influences That Undermine Learners' Perceptions of Autonomy, Competence and Relatedness in an Online Context
Quelle	In: Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 31 (2015) 1, S.86-99 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1449-5554
Schlagwörter	Personal Autonomy; Online Courses; Preservice Teachers; Guidelines; Academic Persistence; Self Determination; Learning Theories; Social Influences; Context Effect; Feedback (Response); Teacher Student Relationship; Student Motivation; Psychological Needs; Case Studies; Teacher Education Programs; Foreign Countries; Qualitative Research; Student Attitudes; Semi Structured Interviews; New Zealand + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Individuelle Autonomie; Online course; Online-Kurs; Richtlinien; Selbstbestimmung; Learning theory; Lerntheorie; Sozialer Einfluss; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Schulische Motivation; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Ausland; Qualitative Forschung; Schülerverhalten; Neuseeland
Abstract	Online learning has grown considerably in recent years. However attrition rates from online courses indicate that not all learners are successful in such settings, and various factors have been identified as crucial to learner persistence. Research evidence suggests that motivation is one such factor. This study builds on previous studies by using self-determination theory (SDT) as an analytical framework to explore, in-depth, the motivation of pre-service teachers situated within an online learning context. In particular, the underlying concepts of autonomy, competence and relatedness from SDT were adopted as critical lenses to identify social and contextual influences which undermined the psychological needs of these learners. Most prominent among these in the current study were: high workload, assessment pressure, perceptions that the learning activity lacked relevance (autonomy-undermining), unclear and complicated guidelines, insufficient guidance and feedback from the instructor (competence-undermining), and communication issues with peers (relatedness-undermining). By not exclusively focusing on learners' autonomy needs as others have done, the paper offers a more extensive picture of undermining influences on motivation than has been previously identified in online studies. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01