Self-Regulated Learning in Digital Era

摘要

Information and communication technology in Indonesia has grown rapidly. One of the indications that support this statement is a data from the Ministry of Communications and Information which shows that internet users in Indonesia is ranked sixth in the category of countries with the largest number of internet users in the world from 2013 to 2018. The main population of information technology user is dominated by students, both in school and in college. Beside the positive impacts, this also brings negative influences n learning, because uncontrolled usage of information and communication technology can lead to addiction. As a college student, in addition to exposure to the negative impacts of technological development, they also have their own difficulties, whether they are working or not working while studying. Therefore, they need the ability of self regulated learning to achieve their academic goals. This research's main purpose is to identify the description of self regulated learning, more spesifically the equation and differences of self regulated learning on working college students and non-working college students. This research is a quantitative research, performed by taking samples of active students who enrolled in the Faculty of Psychology, X University. We used 86 non-working college students and 91 working college students as samples. The results obtained from this study shows that the self regulated learning capability of non-working college students is higher than the self regulated learning capability of working college students. Furthermore, although the level of metacognition and behavior dimensions of working college students are higher compared to non-working students, the motivation dimension of non-working students is higher than working students.