Student Engagement with Online Tutorial: A Perspective on Flow Theory

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  • Paulus Insap Santosa Universitas Gadjah Mada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v10i1.4348

Keywords:

student engagement, flow theory, page length, prior knowledge

Abstract


When students are dealing with online tutorial, there are challengers they must answer using any skill they have. The challenge and skill must be at the same ‘height’ in order for them to immerse with online tutorial activities. Several aspects will be considered as challenge and skill. One challenge under the scrutiny is the page length used to present course materials. The length of tutorial presented in an online tutorial portal varies depends on its topic. The comfort of reading long tutorial depends on how the materials are presented in an online tutorial website, whether it is presented as one long page or shorter multi pages. The comfort that the students obtain from reading an online tutorial may influence whether they decide to continue reading the material or abandon it. This paper reports the result of a study to investigate how tutorial length influences student engagement. The research method employed in this study was a laboratory experiment followed by a post experiment survey where respondents were asked to give their opinion about several statements related to the research variables. Respondents were students who were voluntarily agree to participate in this experiment; total respondents were 95 students. Six hypotheses were tested using PLS, and all of them were supported by the collected data.

Author Biography

Paulus Insap Santosa, Universitas Gadjah Mada

He is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Information Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Jalan Grafika No. 2, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (email: insap@ugm.ac.id). He his undergraduate degree from the department he is with now. He earned his master from University of Colorado, Boulder. He received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Information Systems, School of Computing, National University of Singapore. Currently he is an Assistant Professor in Information Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta. He is currently Vice Chair of Indonesia ACM SIGCHI Chapter established on May, 2014. His research interest includes Human Computer Interaction, User Experience and Usability, Web Design, eLearning, and ICT in Education.

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Published

2015-02-21

How to Cite

Santosa, P. I. (2015). Student Engagement with Online Tutorial: A Perspective on Flow Theory. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 10(1), pp. 60–67. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v10i1.4348

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