Title
The COVID-19 paradox of online collaborative education: when you cannot physically meet, you need more social interactions
Author
Kalmar, E. (TU Delft Science Education and Communication) 
Aarts, Tom (Student TU Delft)
Bosman, Esther (Student TU Delft)
Ford, Camera (Student TU Delft)
de Kluijver, Lisa (Student TU Delft)
Beets, Josine (Student TU Delft)
Veldkamp, Lisette (Student TU Delft)
Timmers, Pauline (Student TU Delft)
Besseling, Diede (Student TU Delft)
Koopman, Joris (Student TU Delft)
Fan, Chuntzu (Student TU Delft)
Berrevoets, Enya (Student TU Delft)
Trotsenburg, Melissa (Student TU Delft)
Maton, Loes (Student TU Delft)
van Remundt, Jill (Student TU Delft)
Sari, Ela (Student TU Delft)
Omar, Lee Wen (Student TU Delft)
Beinema, Emiel (Student TU Delft)
Winkel, R.N.W. (TU Delft Science Education and Communication)
van der Sanden, M.C.A. (TU Delft Science Education and Communication)
Date
2022
Abstract
Collaborative learning is a teaching method that brings together students to discuss a topic important for a given course or curriculum and solve a related problem or create a product. By doing this, learners create knowledge together and gain 21st –century skills such as communication, critical thinking, decision making, leadership and conflict management. Universities had to close their campuses and turn their education fully online in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which created a forced step in the evolution of the digitalisation of collaborative teaching. How did TU Delft face this challenge? How did the students experience the online version of collaborative learning? How did distant learning affect their motivation? This article presents four student team projects investigating these questions from the collaborative learning perspective. One of the significant findings of these projects is the lack of socio-emotional interactions during online collaborative work. We present a few guidelines on how to enable these interactions when designing online or blended collaborative education.
Subject
Collaboration
Collaborative learning
COVID-19 outbreak
Higher education
Online and blended education
Student experience
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e08823
ISSN
2405-8440
Source
Heliyon, 8 (1)
Part of collection
Institutional Repository
Document type
journal article
Rights
© 2022 E. Kalmar, Tom Aarts, Esther Bosman, Camera Ford, Lisa de Kluijver, Josine Beets, Lisette Veldkamp, Pauline Timmers, Diede Besseling, Joris Koopman, Chuntzu Fan, Enya Berrevoets, Melissa Trotsenburg, Loes Maton, Jill van Remundt, Ela Sari, Lee Wen Omar, Emiel Beinema, R.N.W. Winkel, M.C.A. van der Sanden