ARE STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS COLLABORATION MIRRORED IN ONLINE EDUCATION?

Tor Söderström, Anders D. Olofsson and Ulf Stödberg
Department of Education
Umeå University
Sweden

In this article, the aim is to explore the relation between students’ attitudes towards collaboration and their actual online interaction. The article reports on a small case study based on a university course. Data was collected using a questionnaire and log file analysis. Seventeen students were studied. The students foremost use the LMS as a forum for information, for reading teachers’ and other students’ postings, and for watching streamed online lectures. The results show that students who perceive themselves as cooperative and group work oriented did not participate in higher extent than students with lower estimations of their group work orientation.

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