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And Then There Was COVID-19: Do the Benefits of Cooperative Learning Disappear When Switching to Online Education?
- Source :
- Sustainability, Volume 13, Issue 21, SUSTAINABILITY, Sustainability, Vol 13, Iss 12168, p 12168 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021.
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Abstract
- In the spring of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic induced a rapid shift to online education. University instructors promptly reinvented their teaching methods and developed digital lessons. Cooperative learning has been demonstrated to surpass lecture-based learning (LBL) regarding students’ learning processes<br />therefore, the question arises as to whether the perks of cooperative learning still hold when switching to online education. This study examines whether the benefits of team-based learning (TBL) regarding good teaching (i.e., perceived teaching quality), satisfaction, and performance persist when switching from face-to-face to online education. A quasi-experiment in an undergraduate advanced accounting course compared a non-COVID-19-affected semester to a COVID-19-affected semester. In both semesters, students could choose between a TBL and a LBL path for tutorial sessions. Quantitative survey data (N = 455) indicate TBL outperforms LBL, even when switching to online tools. Good teaching was perceived as even better in the COVID-19-affected semester, and even more so by students in the team-based setting, compared to the lecture-based setting. Students’ course satisfaction and performance were unaffected by the switch to online education. This paper shows that TBL still benefits students, even in a blended environment.
- Subjects :
- Cooperative learning
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
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Teaching method
Geography, Planning and Development
TJ807-830
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
good teaching
TD194-195
Course satisfaction
Renewable energy sources
Business and Economics
Mathematics education
ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION
GE1-350
Quality (business)
team learning
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Quantitative survey
Environmental effects of industries and plants
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
satisfaction
COVID-19
cooperative learning
Environmental sciences
Team learning
Psychology
performance
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20711050
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sustainability
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b35714650c0a8410b47595d0d7a068a8
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/su132112168