An Empirical Study on Students’ Academic Wellbeing and Sustainable Development in Live Webcast Classes

Huani Liu, Minjuan Wang, Hengling Wan, Yifan Lyu and Haorong Zhu
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Huani Liu: School of Education, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai 200083, China
Minjuan Wang: Learning Design and Technology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA
Hengling Wan: Moray House School of Education and Sport, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 8AQ, UK
Yifan Lyu: School of English Studies, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai 200083, China
Haorong Zhu: School of Statistics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 2, 1-15

Abstract: In recent years, live webcast classes have been increasingly used in China as an approach to alleviating educational poverty through equal access to high-quality education. Many schools in impoverished areas have managed to increase their proportions of students entering college by introducing the new model. While celebrating improved learning outcomes of a small percentage of students, educators should also be concerned about the overall academic wellbeing and sustainable development of less successful students. In the present study, academic wellbeing was conceptualized as a multidimensional construct covering seven dimensions, namely Empathy, Support, Responsiveness, Reliability, Tangibility, Self-efficacy and Buoyancy. Data were collected from 136 twelfth-grade students who had studied in live webcast classes. The results show that the overall academic wellbeing in live webcast classes was consistent among students of different academic performance levels, but the specific dimensions of academic wellbeing that they think mostly need improvement varied among different student groups. The findings of this study suggest that learner wellbeing and sustainability can be enhanced by closer collaboration between live webcast instructors and local teachers in instructional materials design, exercise and test questions’ compilation, as well as students’ self-study facilitation. The degree to which a local teacher should be involved in classroom teaching depends on the students’ academic level and learning needs.

Keywords: academic wellbeing; live webcast class; instructional design; educational poverty alleviation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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