A Study on College Students’ Self-regulated Online Learning in the Home Study Context

Under the circumstance of school closure due to the outbreak of COVID-19, one of the greatest challenges for the sudden transition from traditional face-to-face teaching to fully online learning lies in students’ inadequate capability in self-regulated learning (SRL) This study investigates how the first-year undergraduate students regulated their online learning in an EFL Small Private Online Course (SPOC) during the pandemic period A revised version of Jansen et al ’s (2018) Self-regulated Online Learning Questionnaire (SOL-Q) is applied to collect information of the participants’ SRL ability Results indicated that the participants’ overall self-regulated online learning ability was generally at an intermediate level, however there’s still room for improvement Specifically, the participants demonstrated limited capability in respect of meta-cognitive skills in the preparatory phase and persistence A positive correlation was found between metacognitive skills and time management Teaching implications are provided on how to improve students’ metacognitive skills, time management and persistence in future online instructions © 2020, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd