Conference Session

Student Engagement, Socioemotional Needs, and Social Support During Pandemic

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Qin Liu, University of Toronto; Juliette Sweeney, University of Toronto; Greg Evans, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Exploring Self-Directed Learning among Engineering Undergraduates in the Extensive Online Instruction Environment during the COVID-19 PandemicAbstract The COVID-19 pandemic brought about unprecedented academic disruptions to postsecondaryeducation, including engineering education. A considerable decrease in student motivation became amajor issue for online learning during the pandemic. This paper attempts to address these questions:How did the online instruction environment affect engineering students’ motivation and self-directedlearning? How did these changes, in turn, affect their learning outcomes? We used survey datacollected from a large Canadian engineering school and