Concept
Self-Regulated Learning
Self-regulated learning (SRL) is how learners plan, monitor, motivate, and adjust their own study. In digital courses it is visible both in self-reports and in LMS traces — and supported (or not) by feedback and help-seeking channels.
Online and blended courses assume students can manage themselves. These papers show SRL profiles aligning with activity and grades, and how adaptive feedback and live help enter the regulation loop.
Evidence
What the evidence shows
Drawn from 3 studies in this library. Each claim links to the studies behind it.
Self-report and digital-trace clustering can recover coherent SRL profiles that align with online activity and course performance.
Task enjoyment and personalized adaptive feedback appear central to how university students plan and regulate learning with a digital tool.
Live chat can function as just-in-time support for help-seeking — a regulation strategy — especially for online learners.
Common misconceptions
LMS activity data replace self-report SRL measures.
Trace and self-report can agree on profiles but capture different facets; both are used together in these studies.
Exam-style questions
Short-answer questions that ask you to explain or compare, not recall.
Why might adaptive feedback matter for pre-actional planning?
Personalized feedback can shape how students integrate guidance into planning and learning actions; enjoyment can be a prerequisite for that planning.
The studies
- Adaptive digital feedback and self-regulated learning
A semester-long mixed-methods study found task enjoyment and personalized adaptive feedback central to how university students plan and regulate learning with a digital tool.
- Does live chat help online and blended students ask for help?
Psychology students in both online and blended modes liked live chat for just-in-time help; online learners were especially positive.
- Self-report and traces of blended SRL
In a blended computer-systems course, self-report and LMS-trace clustering both revealed coherent SRL profiles that aligned with online activity and course performance.
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