Year: 2016
Type: dissertation
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: In less than two decades, learning management systems (LMS) have gone from being a rarity to having near-ubiquitous presence on Canadian college campuses. This wide-spread adoption of LMS technology has fundamentally changed the learning environment for today’s campus-based college student, yet there is a lack of research that investigates how students engage with the learning environments created by the prevalent use of these systems. The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between campus-based students’ perceived level of engagement in LMS an online learning environment and their online behaviour as measured by log data for various LMS activities. Additionally, this study examined faculty members’ use of an LMS and the impact of that use on students’ engagement and students’ use of the LMS. The results of the analysis reveal no correlation between students’ online engagement as measured by the Student Engagement Questionnaire (SEQ) and frequency counts of LMS activities. Small correlations were found between students’ estimates of their LMS activity in discussion forums and their overall SEQ score. There was no difference in the mean SEQ score between groups of survey respondents based on faculty use of the LMS, but some differences in student estimates of their activity in discussion forums were found between student respondents grouped by age and gender.
Source: TSpace (University of Toronto)
Author: Krista Lee Vogt
Language: English
Topic: Online and Blended Learning
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2561935209