Educational institutions offering online instruction must consider various factors beyond the technological, to ensure the success of this modality. From the student's point of view, one of these factors is their profile, as this differs from that required in traditional education. To perform adequately in this modality, students must be able to self-regulate their learning, since the ICT-mediated context presents particular challenges that require skills such as activity planning, goal setting, performance monitoring, and strategy adaptation when goals are not achieved. Likewise, the importance of self-regulated learning also lies in its influence on satisfaction, which is a substantial variable related to learning outcomes.

This paper presents the results of a study conducted at a university in Mexico, whose objective was to determine the influence of students' self-regulated learning profiles on their satisfaction with their online courses. The sample consisted of 122 undergraduate students who responded to an online questionnaire adapted from the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ). The results of the multiple regressions indicated that the first component of self-regulated learning, Motivational Factors, only Intrinsic Goal Orientation and Task Value were significant; however, they had little explanatory power in Satisfaction. Together, these variables obtained an adjusted R2 = .047 and a low effect size f2 =.066. Of the second component, Cognitive and Metacognitive Strategies, only Elaboration Strategies and Metacognitive Strategies had a significant predictive influence on Satisfaction. Together, they had an adjusted R2 =.380 and a relevant effect size f2 =.639. Of the third and final component, Behavioral and Contextual Strategies, Peer Learning Strategies and Study Environment and Time Strategy were significant with an adjusted R2 =.392 and a relevant effect size f2=.67.

The findings show the influence of self-regulated learning on student satisfaction in their online courses. This points to the importance of developing strategies to equip students with this set of skills so that they can successfully complete their courses.

Keywords: Self-regulated learning, online education, learning satisfaction.