Self-Efficacy in Internet-Based Learning Environments: A Literature Review

This paper reviews 46 papers from 1999 to 2009 regarding self-efficacy in Internet-based learning environments, and discusses three major categories of research: (1) learners’ Internet self-efficacy, assessing learners’ confidence in their skills or knowledge of operating general Internet functions or applications in Internet-based learning; (2) the interplay between learners’ general academic self-efficacy and their Internetbased learning, and...