Correlation Analysis Between Emotional Engagement and Achievement of University Students in Online Learning Based on an Elective Course

Emotional support in Online Learning (OL) has become a key factor in the success of self-regulated learning. Based on an elective course in the university, the dataset that includes cognitive, emotional and behavioral states of 35 students in daily self-regulated and single observed MOOC online learning are collected by means of investigation and experiment. The correlations between emotional engagement and achievement of online learning are analyzed via SPSS tool. The experimental data show that emotional engagement has the more significant impact on academic achievement than that of behavioral engagement, but less than that of cognitive engagement. The correlation between emotional engagement and cognitive engagement is extremely obvious, while the correlation between emotional engagement and behavioral engagement is extremely insignificant. Therefore, it is suggested that teachers could improve students’ positive emotions and execution ability by establishing appropriate evaluation of curriculum value and self-perception to guarantee learning effect.