Promoting Self-Regulated Learning for Students in Underdeveloped Areas: The Case of Indonesia Nationwide Online-Learning Program

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused educators around the world to access online-learning systems. Applying the online system involves challenges, such as the students’ need to cope with changes in their learning process, where they must develop capabilities to manage their learning more independently. Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) is an approach considered to help us understand students’ ability to manage their learning strategies and achieve improved performance. This paper aims to investigate the SRL of Indonesian students in underdeveloped areas when using a learning management system (LMS), namely SPADA, initiated by the Indonesian government. This study employed the clickstream data (CSD) of SPADA to examine students’ SRL within the first nine months of its implementation. We also analyzed the correlation of certain activities in SPADA with the students’ SRL results. The findings suggest some positive indications of SPADA implementation, particularly in promoting the students’ SRL, either students in general or in the underdeveloped areas. Some improvements indeed still need to be made on the system, including in improving the platform architecture to gain a better measurement method on students’ SRL.