Abstract:

The coronavirus pandemic that has hit the whole world has provoked a general transition of educational institutions to online learning format. This process has affected all levels of education, including higher educational institutions. If in the traditional teaching format, the resource of real pedagogical communication was the guarantor of academic success for students with different psychological characteristics, this is not the case in the online format. In this regard, it can be assumed that the personal resources of students, their motivation, self-control and the formation of self-management are becoming more important in the situation of online learning format.

The aim of our study was to study the personal characteristics of students in connection with academic success in online courses and build a model based on these factors.

The methodological basis of the study was the survey method. The sample included 139 students of the first and second years of technical training. In order to study the psychological predictors of successful online learning, the following methods were used: an abbreviated version of the multi-factor personality questionnaire "Big Five" (B5-10); "Scales of academic motivation"; "Brief scale of self-control"; the diagnostics of the dominant perceptual modality; J. Raven's scale of progressive matrices, as well as the author's self-assessment of the quality of education.

The results of the study made it possible to identify eight factors from 32 studied variables. The performed regression analysis identified four factors from eight that reliably determine the value of the learning outcome. Factors that positively affect the learning outcome: "General academic performance", "Internal motivation" and "Learning experience ". In this study, the factor" Perceptual development” is defined as the factor that negatively effects on academic success.
In conclusion, academic grades in all subjects over the entire period of study were assigned to the key factor "Overall performance". This factor determines the following pattern: In general, successful students in off-line learning are successful in online learning format. An additional block of information to the first factor is contained in the following factor, which we called "Learning Experience". It includes age and course of study. In the context of our research, the most interesting aspect is the intrapersonal aspect of the problematic of learning. It is concentrated in the factor "Internal motivation". Another factor identified by us "Perceptual development" includes indicators of visual, auditory and motor perception. This factor determines the ability to concentrate and not to be distracted from learning activities. In general, the resulting model explains 33% of the variance in online learning outcomes.

Keywords:

Mass online courses, online learning success, online learning model, online learning factors, psychological characteristics of students.