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Fostering Student-Student Interactions in a First-Year Experience Course Taught Online during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Online college courses can lack much-needed student interactions without live synchronous sessions. The need for socialization is particularly important for first-year students and has been of particular concern during the COVID-19 pandemic, when isolation is the new norm outside the classroom. Here...
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American Society of Microbiology
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8012041/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33884070 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.v22i1.2417 |
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author | Majewska, Ania A. Vereen, Ethell |
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description | Online college courses can lack much-needed student interactions without live synchronous sessions. The need for socialization is particularly important for first-year students and has been of particular concern during the COVID-19 pandemic, when isolation is the new norm outside the classroom. Here we provide a perspective on the use of online synchronous sessions in a first-year biology course that encouraged student-student interactions and employed the culturally responsive teaching approach. We used group assignments, modeled on the jigsaw method, during our meetings and provided extra time outside of the dedicated class period to foster student collaboration, conversation, and social presence. We noted high attendance and participation in the synchronous sessions, suggesting effectiveness of the methods we used in student engagement and satisfaction. |
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spelling | pubmed-80120412021-04-20 Fostering Student-Student Interactions in a First-Year Experience Course Taught Online during the COVID-19 Pandemic Majewska, Ania A. Vereen, Ethell J Microbiol Biol Educ Teaching in a Time of Crisis Online college courses can lack much-needed student interactions without live synchronous sessions. The need for socialization is particularly important for first-year students and has been of particular concern during the COVID-19 pandemic, when isolation is the new norm outside the classroom. Here we provide a perspective on the use of online synchronous sessions in a first-year biology course that encouraged student-student interactions and employed the culturally responsive teaching approach. We used group assignments, modeled on the jigsaw method, during our meetings and provided extra time outside of the dedicated class period to foster student collaboration, conversation, and social presence. We noted high attendance and participation in the synchronous sessions, suggesting effectiveness of the methods we used in student engagement and satisfaction. American Society of Microbiology 2021-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC8012041/ /pubmed/33884070 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.v22i1.2417 Text en ©2021 Author(s). Published by the American Society for Microbiology This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ and https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode), which grants the public the nonexclusive right to copy, distribute, or display the published work. |
spellingShingle | Teaching in a Time of Crisis Majewska, Ania A. Vereen, Ethell Fostering Student-Student Interactions in a First-Year Experience Course Taught Online during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title | Fostering Student-Student Interactions in a First-Year Experience Course Taught Online during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full | Fostering Student-Student Interactions in a First-Year Experience Course Taught Online during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_fullStr | Fostering Student-Student Interactions in a First-Year Experience Course Taught Online during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Fostering Student-Student Interactions in a First-Year Experience Course Taught Online during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_short | Fostering Student-Student Interactions in a First-Year Experience Course Taught Online during the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_sort | fostering student-student interactions in a first-year experience course taught online during the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Teaching in a Time of Crisis |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8012041/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33884070 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.v22i1.2417 |
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