Working Title/Concept 3: Attention Span of students During Online Classes vs Face to face Classes

BOOK TITLE AUTHOR YEAR LIBRARY CALL NUMBER / URL WHAT DOES THE SOURCE SAY? WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR YOU?
1. Making training Cherrett, T. (2009,
more cognitively November https://bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ Adding interactivity increases the
effective: Making 1) 10.1111/j.1467-8535.2009.00985.x effectiveness of the lectures and
videos interactive. expands the attention span of online
learners (Cherrett, Wills, Price,
Maynard, & Dror, 2009; Dror, Schmidt,
& O'connor, 2011; Kim et al., 2014).
Interactivity has been considered for
years an essential element of learning
(Moreno & Mayer, 2007; Sims, 1997)
2. Teachers’ and Cicekci, M. A., & 2019 https://doi.org/10.5539/jel.v8n6p15 Attention, as defined in the study of
Students’ Opinions Sadik, F. Cicekci and Sadik (2019), is the state of
About Students’ mental awareness and focus. Some
Attention Problems studies have found that there is a
During the Lesson | strong relationship between higher
Cicekci | Journal of arousal level and attention intensity
Education and (Cicekci & Sadik, 2019; Rosegard &
Learning | CCSE Wilson, 2013; Wang & Hsu, 2013).
Based on selective attention, it
provided an explanation on the
relationship between arousal and
performance. Furthermore, arousal is
inversely related to one’s attention
span, whereas an increase in arousal
will lead to attention narrowing and a
decrease in arousal will result in
attention widening (Kumar &
Assistant, 2019; Rosegard & Wilson,
2013).

3. Investigating Lee, J., & Martin, L. 2017 https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v18i5.2883 Motivation is a key factor in the daily
Students’ lives of people, their goals and
Perceptions of aspirations are driven by this and
Motivating Factors influences how they act, behave, how
 of Online Class they perform tasks, and how they
Discussions | The learn (Hartnett & Hartnett, 2016). In
International schools, motivation is measured by
Review of Research how engaged the student is towards
in Open and an activity or material. If they are
Distributed positively engaged, the more they
Learning want to persevere when obstacles are
presented; and should they struggle
and give up, they are negatively
engaged (Hartnett & Hartnett, 2016).
The aim of online learning is to allow
the student to fully take responsibility
for their performance, how they
manage their time and meet the
deadlines of the activities assigned to
them, and still maintain active
participation in synchronous meetings
(Hartnett & Hartnett, 2016)

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