Why do Higher Secondary Students Like Cooperation but Reject Collaboration in an Online Environment?

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Why do Higher Secondary Students Like Cooperation but Reject Collaboration in an Online Environment?

Original language description

The purpose of this case study was to investigate the impact of online learning tools on students’ attitudes to cooperation and collaboration within a short-term out-class project. After a successful implementation of cooperation into a classroom based learning environment, our aim was to explore students’ learning behaviour and strategies while working in teams on an out-class project in CLIL Social Science lessons. The project included both cooperative and collaborative activities dealing with the financial literacy. Before the experiment, we had to carefully select and define the collaborative skills, which our students were to learn and practise, since collaborative skills might vary into complexity and difficulty depending on the age of the class. The methods of questionnaire and focus-group reflection were used to analyse the contributions from 88 students. At first, the study researches both terms of cooperation and collaboration in an online environment, then the out-class project is outlined. Finally, the study presents the outcomes and findings and provides the close insight into team out-class learning. The study reveals that majority of students are able to cooperate in an on-line environment, however, if we look deeper, it is evident that the rate of cooperation varies a lot depending on attributes such as e.g. student’s motivation, learning preferences, their relationships or leader skills. On the other hand, the study points out difficulties the students might have in online collaboration. These findings might be of interests to higher secondary teachers, who are engaged in out-class projects or intend to implement online technologies in teamwork.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Proceedings of the 15 European Conference on e-learning ECEL 2016

ISBN

978-1-911218-17-3

ISSN

2048-8637

e-ISSN

neuvedeno

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

216-223

Publisher name

Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited

Place of publication

Reading

Event location

Praha, Česká republika

Event date

Oct 27, 2016

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000400303700029