What is it about?
We studied the student perception of in-person active learning environments and the perception shift during the transition to online learning in Winter 2020. The first goal was to assess how the student satisfaction with the two different in-person learning environments (ALCs and traditional lecture halls) compare in terms of ability to do active learning exercises in groups. The second goal was to assess how the student perception of their ability to collaborate changed when moving to online from either in-person classroom type.
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Why is it important?
The Winter 2020 term was unique as it involved a sudden pivot to online learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This presented an interesting opportunity to analyze the perception on active learning both in-person and online for the same cohort of students within a single term.
Perspectives
This study shows that under a quick transition to online, active learning in an online context is perceived as less collaborative by students used to an ALC than those taught with active pedagogy in a traditional classroom. With the short-term necessity of online course delivery, further analysis is warranted on how to transpose the same in-person group work experience to an online context.
Bogdan Simion
University of Toronto
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This page is a summary of: Active Learning Environments and the Transition to Online, March 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3408877.3439573.
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