(Re)considering Motivational Scaffolding: A Mixed-Method Study on Turkish Students’ Perspectives on Online Learning Before and During the Pandemic

Motivational scaffolding is of key importance in online learning since learners are isolated alone. Recently, this need has doubled with the educational disruption because COVID-19 pandemic, which moved classroom to entirely online. However, little research been particularly conducted explore perceptions before and during pandemic. Therefore, study empirically investigated 26 university-level Turkish students’ experiences pandemic teacher support time crisis. Data were collected through a mixed-method design conducting questionnaire interviewing via dialogue journals essay writing. The data analysed descriptive statistics coding themes based on deductive inductive approaches. findings from quantitative analysis revealed that students believed advantages resources (OLRs) for their own but still needed support. Furthermore, results qualitative demonstrated teacher-student interaction most favoured motivational regard. shed light role caring as calls an institutional development integration pedagogy care into education.