Conceptualising students' emotional engagement in asynchronous forums.

This presentation explores how students perceive of their emotions within an asynchronous forum and how this relates to social learning behaviours. We live in a world where earning and learning is rapidly moving online, we know there is increase in flexible and online learning at university and professionally. Plus asynchronous engagement is the foundation for online learning design. Currently, there are more studies focused on achievement outcomes and engaging with course content, with very few studies focus on the learning behaviours related to student’s emotions as they engage in asynchronous forums. This research is important because: 1. There is little to no research from the perspective of student's emotions and how these influence learning behaviours asynchronously; 2. We need to know about the emotional perspectives of a learner coming to an asynchronous (open) forum 3. The study identifies three typologies representing social emotional learning action.