The first hypothesis was confirmed in its entirety. Specifically, students provided with
autonomy support experienced a greater sense of autonomy, and students provided with
structure experienced a greater sense of competence. Results suggest that perceived
autonomy increases when a digital learning task supports autonomy by offering choices, a
rationale for a task, and non-directive language. Further, an autonomy-supportive digital
learning task helps to fulfill the need for autonomy because students can experience
freedom in the activity (Reeve et al. 2007).