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College Students’ Multitasking Behavior in Online Versus Face-to-Face Courses

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  • Andrew Lepp
  • Jacob E. Barkley
  • Aryn C. Karpinski
  • Shweta Singh

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This study compared college students’ multitasking in online courses with their multitasking in face-to-face courses and explored the significance of potential predictors of multitasking in each setting. Students taking both online and face-to-face courses completed surveys assessing multitasking in each setting, self-efficacy for self-regulated learning (SE:SRL), Internet addiction, multitasking tendency, age, and sex. Multitasking was significantly greater in online than face-to-face courses. Internet addiction was positively associated with multitasking in online and face-to-face courses. Multitasking tendency was positively and age was negatively associated with multitasking during online courses only; SE:SRL was negatively associated with multitasking during face-to-face courses only. In conclusion, multitasking was greatest during online courses. Furthermore, there were different sets of predictors for students’ multitasking in online courses compared with face-to-face courses. This implies that multitasking in online and face-to-face courses are different phenomena and therefore may require different pedagogical methods to successfully minimize multitasking behaviors.

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  • Andrew Lepp & Jacob E. Barkley & Aryn C. Karpinski & Shweta Singh, 2019. "College Students’ Multitasking Behavior in Online Versus Face-to-Face Courses," SAGE Open, , vol. 9(1), pages 21582440188, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:sagope:v:9:y:2019:i:1:p:2158244018824505
    DOI: 10.1177/2158244018824505
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    1. Kamer Ainur Aivaz & Daniel Teodorescu, 2022. "College Students’ Distractions from Learning Caused by Multitasking in Online vs. Face-to-Face Classes: A Case Study at a Public University in Romania," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(18), pages 1-16, September.

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