Finnish high school students’ readiness to adopt online learning: Questioning the assumptions Export

@article{citeulike:5214456, abstract = {The Finnish high school system in rural areas is facing challenges because of a decreasing number of the students. This situation places new emphasis on online learning. Online learning offers new possibilities for high schools to provide equal learning opportunities for their students. This paper explores students' readiness to adapt their studying habits in the networked high schools by outlining their beliefs about online learning. Beliefs are assumed to direct people's actions, in this case activities concerning studying online. Three hundred second year high school students from Eastern Finland who had not had the experiences of learning online were studied. The findings suggest that students polarize into negative, neutral and positive groups based on their beliefs concerning online learning. Results also indicate that students' knowledge about the possibilities of online learning is quite superficial. In contrast to theories about collaborative learning practices, students see online learning rather differently. Students with negative and neutral beliefs especially see online learning merely as a static ” warehouse” of materials and study-alone learning tasks instead of offering possibilities for collaborative knowledge building.}, author = {Valtonen, Teemu and Kukkonen, Jari and Dillon, Patrick and V\"{a}is\"{a}nen, Pertti}, citeulike-article-id = {5214456}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2009.04.014}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0360131509001067}, doi = {10.1016/j.compedu.2009.04.014}, issn = {03601315}, journal = {Computers \& Education}, keywords = {collaboration, distributedlearning20, highereducation, instructionaldesign20, skills, web20}, month = {November}, number = {3}, pages = {742--748}, posted-at = {2009-09-21 14:31:50}, priority = {2}, title = {Finnish high school students' readiness to adopt online learning: Questioning the assumptions}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2009.04.014}, volume = {53}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5214456 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5214456 N2 - The Finnish high school system in rural areas is facing challenges because of a decreasing number of the students. This situation places new emphasis on online learning. Online learning offers new possibilities for high schools to provide equal learning opportunities for their students. This paper explores students’ readiness to adapt their studying habits in the networked high schools by outlining their beliefs about online learning. Beliefs are assumed to direct people’s actions, in this case activities concerning studying online. Three hundred second year high school students from Eastern Finland who had not had the experiences of learning online were studied. The findings suggest that students polarize into negative, neutral and positive groups based on their beliefs concerning online learning. Results also indicate that students’ knowledge about the possibilities of online learning is quite superficial. In contrast to theories about collaborative learning practices, students see online learning rather differently. Students with negative and neutral beliefs especially see online learning merely as a static “warehouse” of materials and study-alone learning tasks instead of offering possibilities for collaborative knowledge building. IS - 3 JF - Computers & Education SN - 03601315 EP - 748 TI - Finnish high school students’ readiness to adopt online learning: Questioning the assumptions VL - 53 SP - 742 KW - collaboration KW - distributedlearning20 KW - highereducation KW - instructionaldesign20 KW - skills KW - web20 AU - Valtonen, Teemu AU - Kukkonen, Jari AU - Dillon, Patrick AU - Väisänen, Pertti PY - 2009/11// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2009.04.014 ER -