Chapter 5: Using Shared and Co-Regulation in Online Educational Psychology Courses to Enhance the Transfer of Students’ Self-Regulation and Learning

An Educational Psychology (educational psychology) course presents a unique opportunity to teach students the theory and research of self-regulation (SR), and other forms of regulation, and promote the application of evidence-based practice. Although SR theory is a typical curriculum component of any educational psychology course, the meta nature of learning about self-, shared, and co-regulation in educational psychology affords an opportunity for students to develop and use effective SR strategies. By putting the newly learned theory into practice and using evidence-based strategies (Salonen et al., 2005), educational psychology students can improve their own success as online learners. Research has found that this two-prong approach to teaching and applying SR maximizes student learning and transfer of regulatory skills (Bol & Garner, 2011; Carter et al., 2020; Dabbagh & Kitsantas, 2004; Dignath & Veenman, 2020; Michalsky, 2021; Peeters et al., 2014; Wandler & Imbriale, 2017).