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Technologies to Enhance Self-Regulated Learning in Online and Computer-Mediated Learning Environments

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This chapter explores how technologies may enhance SRL in online learning environments. This chapter first gives an overview of self-regulated learning theory and discusses how SRL may differ in online and face-to-face contexts. It then explores how educational and communication technologies can be used to help students develop SRL, either prior to or outside of course instruction or as technology embedded within online learning environments and used during learning. Ready-made online tools such as blogs, podcasts, social media (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, etc.), and wikis are considered, as is the potential of learning analytics to enhance SRL. Lastly, this chapter examines some of the challenges of the field of SRL and the use of educational technologies.

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  1. School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia

    Jaclyn Broadbent

  2. Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE), Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia

    Jaclyn Broadbent

  3. Faculty of Psychology and Education, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain

    Ernesto Panadero

  4. IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain

    Ernesto Panadero

  5. School of Education and Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia

    Jason M. Lodge

  6. Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia

    Paula de Barba

  7. Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia

    Paula de Barba

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  4. Organization, Information & Learning Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA

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Broadbent, J., Panadero, E., Lodge, J.M., de Barba, P. (2020). Technologies to Enhance Self-Regulated Learning in Online and Computer-Mediated Learning Environments. In: Bishop, M.J., Boling, E., Elen, J., Svihla, V. (eds) Handbook of Research in Educational Communications and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36119-8_3

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