Belonging in distance learning: The impact of interaction during the COVID-19 pandemic

[EN] The COVID-19 pandemic has created a unique situation in which higher education institutions, teachers, researchers, and students prove their ability to continue education online. In a longitudinal panel study at a German university, we investigated how freshmen and students in higher semesters...

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Autores: Mainka, Agnes, Kötter, Jonas, Kukharenka, Natallia, Brinkmeier, Michael
Tipo de recurso: capítulo de libro
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/191565
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/191565
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Distance learning
Sense of belonging
Social engagement
Academic engagement
COVID-19
Online
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Sumario:[EN] The COVID-19 pandemic has created a unique situation in which higher education institutions, teachers, researchers, and students prove their ability to continue education online. In a longitudinal panel study at a German university, we investigated how freshmen and students in higher semesters (n = 72) cope with the online winter semester 2020/21. Commonly, a sense of belonging to a university is highly determined by academic and social engagement and positively impacts academic success and motivation. Due to the pandemic, the interaction between students, lecturers, and learning materials was limited to digital communication. The results reveal that interaction (student-to-content, student-to-staff, and student-to-student) hardly correlates with a sense of belonging, whereas correlations between interaction and academic success as well as motivation.