Smart Groups: A system to orchestrate collaboration in hybrid learning environments. A simulation study

IF 3.3 3区 教育学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Adrián Carrruana Martín, Carlos Alario-Hoyos, C. Delgado Kloos
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Abstract

COVID-19 has brought new hybrid learning environments with some students in the classroom and some others online, synchronously, due to the needs of social distancing. These new hybrid learning environments pose new challenges, for example for group collaboration. This paper presents Smart Groups, a system aimed at helping teachers to orchestrate collaboration in hybrid learning environments and assesses its usability and usefulness through a simulation study. Smart Groups identifies the students that are in the classroom and online, automates the creation of groups (recommending collaborative learning flow patterns to teachers and considering the previous work done by students), supports the communication among students and the use of additional tools and resources for collaboration, and helps maintain the safety distance among the students who are in the classroom. The usability of Smart Groups has been assessed through a mock-up by 60 users (41 students and 19 teachers) with the system usability scale (SUS) obtaining good results (mean = 75.47, standard deviation = 14.95, median = 76.25). A subgroup (10 teachers out of 19) carried out follow-up interviews using the technology acceptance model (TAM) and highlighted the usefulness of Smart Groups to orchestrate collaboration in hybrid learning environments. Implications for practice or policy: Smart Groups supports teachers in the orchestration of groups in hybrid learning environments. Smart Groups facilitates group coordination and communication among students. Smart Groups helps maintain the safety distance.
智能小组:在混合学习环境中协调协作的系统。模拟研究
由于社交距离的需要,新冠肺炎带来了新的混合学习环境,一些学生在课堂上,另一些学生在网上同步学习。这些新的混合学习环境带来了新的挑战,例如小组协作。本文介绍了智能小组,这是一个旨在帮助教师在混合学习环境中协调协作的系统,并通过模拟研究评估其可用性和有用性。智能小组识别课堂和在线的学生,自动创建小组(向教师推荐协作学习流程模式,并考虑学生之前所做的工作),支持学生之间的沟通以及使用额外的工具和资源进行协作,并有助于保持课堂上学生之间的安全距离。60名用户(41名学生和19名教师)通过实物模型对智能小组的可用性进行了评估,系统可用性量表(SUS)获得了良好的结果(平均值=75.47,标准差=14.95,中位数=76.25)。一个小组(19名教师中的10名)使用技术接受模型(TAM)进行了后续访谈,并强调了智能小组在在混合学习环境中协调协作。对实践或政策的影响:智能小组支持教师在混合学习环境中协调小组。智能小组有助于学生之间的小组协调和沟通。智能群组有助于保持安全距离。
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Australasian Journal of Educational Technology
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-
CiteScore
7.60
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审稿时长
36 weeks
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