Learning motivation and perceived social presence are both positively associated with learner engagement in agentic AI-supported online learning¶

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q2 i? Learning motivation (β = 0.533) and perceived social presence (β = 0.493) both increased learner engagement in the structural model. → Dhanya Pramod and Kanchan Pranay Patil 2026

Evidence¶

Dhanya Pramod and Kanchan Pranay Patil 2026¶

Dhanya Pramod and Kanchan Pranay Patil. (2026). Agentic AI in educational environments and its association with social and motivational pathways to learning performance. Discover Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44217-026-02168-4

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PLS-SEM analysis of the 398-respondent survey; the article reports that learning motivation and perceived social presence "greatly increased learner engagement", with the printed coefficients and confidence intervals.

"Learning motivation (β = 0.533, 95% CI: 0.467–0.598) and perceived social presence (β = 0.493, 95% CI: 0.427–0.558) greatly increased learner engagement, which, in turn, greatly affected perceived learner performance (β = 0.671, 95% CI: 0.615–0.725)."

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