How E-Learning Environmental Stimuli Influence Determinates of Learning Engagement in the Context of COVID-19? SOR Model Perspective

• DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.584976
• Publication Date: 2021-03-31T06:42:01Z
• Authors: Junhui Yang; Michael Yao-Ping ...; ShwuHuey Wong; WeiLoong Chong
• Keywords: learning engagement; 4. Education; 05 social sciences; COVID-19; Psychology; environmental stimuli; S-O-R model; 0503 education; e-learning; BF1-990; 3. Good health

The COVID-19 pandemic at the beginning of 2020 has changed the conventional learning mode for most students at schools all over the world, and the e-learning at home has become a new trend. Taking Chinese college students as the research subject and drawing on the stimulus–organism–response (S-O-R) model, this paper examines the relationship between the peer referent, perceived closeness, and perceived control and the learning engagement. Using data from 377 college students who have used e-learning, this study shows that perceived closeness, perceived control, and peer referents in e-learning have a positive effect on the self-efficacy and well-being of students, thus improving students’ enthusiasm for learning. Our intent is to assist researchers, instructors, designers, and others in identifying effective methods to conceptualize and measure student engagement in e-learning.