Abstract
AbstractThe development of technology enables diverse learning experiences nowadays, which shows the importance of learners’ self-regulated skills at the same time. Particularly, the ability to allocate time properly becomes an issue for learners since time is a resource owned by all of them. However, they tend to struggle to manage their time well due to the lack of awareness of its existence. This study, hence, aims to reveal how learners allocate their time and evaluate the effectiveness of the time allocation by examining its effects on learners’ performance. We collect the learning logs of 116 seventh-graders from the online learning system implemented in a Japanese public junior high school. We look at the data in the time window of 34 days before the regular exam. Even though clustering techniques as a Learning Analytics method help identify different groups of learners, it is seldom applied to group students’ learning patterns with different levels of indicators extracted from their learning process data. In this study, we adopt the method to cluster students’ patterns of time allocation and find that better performance can result from the consistency of study time throughout the exam preparation period. Practical suggestions are then proposed for different roles involved in digital learning environments to facilitate students’ time management. Collectively, this study is expected to make contributions to smart learning environments supporting self-regulated learning in the digital era.
Funder
NEDO Special Innovation Program on AI and Big Data
New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization
JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research
JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Computer Science Applications,Education
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