The Effectiveness of Emotional Motivational Feedback Messages

An important technique for learning, feedback has been described as responses to students’ behaviors, tasks, assignments, and outcomes. In this study, the researcher used a new kind of feedback message called an Emotional Motivational Feedback Message (EMFEM). EMFEM is a feedback message which includes motivational strategies and emotional content for motivating and encouraging students to learn more and to focus on a specific topic. EMFEM is based on Visser and Keller’s (1990) motivational message design, which was influenced by Keller’s (1987) ARCS theory and emotional content strategies. Because EMFEM is primarily used in text-based, online learning environments, it is limited in its ways of adding emotional content to feedback messages. Therefore, three main strategies were used in this study to include EMFEM: using the meaning of the words; formatting the words by using colored, bold, underlined text; and adding emoticons. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of EMFEM in online learning environments. This exploratory research was conducted using mixed method single case study design (Creswell, 2005; Johnson & Onwuegbuzie, 2004; Yin, 2009) and guided by the following question: How effective are emotional motivational feedback messages in an online learning environment? Participants were 15 undergraduate students enrolled for an instructional technology course in a large state university located in an urban region in the southeastern part of the United States during fall 2013. The researcher used multiple data collection strategies, including a course interest survey, an instructional technology attitudes survey, open-ended questionnaires, a research journal, forum/discussion postings, emails, reflection papers and warm-up surveys. The findings showed that, in an online course using EMFEM, (a) students’ motivation increased; (b) students’ attitudes toward IT increased; (c) students liked the EMFEM and the style of the instructor’s teaching; (d) students had a closer and friendlier relationship with the instructor; (e) students were satisfied with the course; (f) students started to use more emotional content; (g) students enjoyed having personalized EMFEM and requested to have EMFEM; and (h) students reported positive overall experiences by the end of the course

EMOTIONAL PRESENCE IN ONLINE LEARNING SCALE: A SCALE DEVELOPMENT STUDY

Although emotions are not a new topic in learning environments, the emerging technologies have changed not only the type of learning environments but also the perspectives of emotions in learning environments. This study designed to develop a survey to help online instructors to understand students’ emotional statement in online learning environment. This survey focuses online instructors to know and understand what or how their students’ can reflect their feelings and also whether they are able to transfer their emotions in online learning. The last version of the survey has 21 items and 2 subfactors which are “Giving Emotions” and “Receiving Emotions”. The factor analysis results showed that Cronbach Alpha for Giving Emotion was .86, for Receiving Emotions was .79 and for the total survey was .88

The investigation of the usage of ICT in university lecturers' courses

World Conference on Educational Sciences -- FEB 04-07, 2009 -- Nicosia, CYPRUSWOS: 000275580400085The aim of this study is to determine the usage level of ICT in university lecturers' courses. For this purpose, the ICT usage frequency of lecturers related to various sub-dimensions. In this study, Survey method was used. The data were collected using Koca's (2006) scale that was composed of two sections. In the first section of the survey, 12 questions were asked to lecturers about their demographic features. In the second section, 19 questions were asked regarding the ICT usage frequency of lecturers. 157 lecturers from 9 different faculties participated in this study. In consequence of the study, significant difference was found in the usage frequency of ICT according to the lecturers' gender and their faculties. On the other hand, no significant difference was found regarding their academic titles. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserve

A sustainable, self-sufficient peer review algorithm for health-related YouTube videos: A proposal

YouTube has recently become one of the major sources of information in the field of health. Not only healthcare professionals but also laypersons can upload videos to YouTube and this fact creates a significant heterogeneity in the content, viewpoint, and accuracy of the available videos. Particularly, those videos presenting personal experiences and inferences on health problems may not rely on scientific evidence thus create inaccurate information. This commentary aims to propose an algorithm to improve the accuracy and reliability of health-related YouTube videos

The Examination of Self-Regulation Abilities in High School Students within the Framework of an Integrated Model of Personality Traits, Cyberloafing and Nomophobia

In this study, where individual differences in learning environments and the periods of transformation of education and learning are considered to become intertwined to create an important area of integration; the aimwas to examine the self-regulation abilities in high school students within the framework of an integrated model of personality traits, cyberloafing, and nomophobia. Questions aimed to be answered are as follows: (1) In the relationship between self-regulations skills and personality traits what are the mediating effects of cyberloafing and nomophobia? (2) What is the mediating effect of nomophobia on the relationships between personality traits and levels of cyberloafing? The findings obtained from the study which were tested using a regression model show that the extrovert personality trait has a direct and negative effect on self-regulation, whilst the agreeableness personality trait has a direct and positive effect on self-regulation. Besides, whilst the personality trait of openness to experience has a direct and positive effect on nomophobia; nomophobia as a variable has a direct and positive effect on the variable cyberloafing. In accordance with this, the results of the study also evidenced that personality trait openness to experience, has an indirect effect on the variable cyberloafing, through the variable of nomophobia