Student Backgrounds vs. Behaviors in E-Learning: A Case Analysis of E-Campus Coursework
YVONNE YING-YA WEN, Shiow-Luan Wang,
Abstract
With the introduction of E-Campus Three into our university, students find themselves to be with more obligations to fulfill. Beside attending the two-hour lecture period every week, those who take the course A General Introduction to Western Literature/Culture taught by the first writer in the fall semester of 2007 are supposed to keep weekly reflective journals (also known as learning logs), take quizzes, submit assignments and download handouts online in the virtual classroom. These students belong to four different classes. Each of them is with a specific background: one class is of the five-year program, another is in the night division, and the rest of them are sophomores in the day division. One of the latter two consists of sophomores with commercial education background, while the other comprises of those who took language-focused programs in their high school days. The latter three classes of students will eventually receive a degree of Bachelor of Business Administration upon graduation while the first is going to graduate with a diploma. Students respond differently toward the extra e-learning requirements just as their backgrounds vary. The researchers categorize their online learning behaviors according to their learning logs and the questionnaires they fill out. An analysis of their online learning behaviors is drawn in relation to their educational backgrounds.
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