AUTHOR=Yang Junhui , Peng Michael Yao-Ping , Wong ShwuHuey , Chong WeiLoong 

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

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 12 - 2021

YEAR=2021

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.584976

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2021.584976

ISSN=1664-1078

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