How UK HE STEM Students Were Motivated to Switch Their Cameras on: A Study of the Development of Compassionate Communications in Task-focused Online Group Meetings
HE’s pandemic-driven shift to online platforms has increased social and learning disconnection amongst students. In online group work/teamwork, many are reluctant to switch on their cameras to be more present to others. Compassion in group work/teamwork is defined as noticing, not normalizing, one’s...
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| description | HE’s pandemic-driven shift to online platforms has increased social and learning disconnection amongst students. In online group work/teamwork, many are reluctant to switch on their cameras to be more present to others. Compassion in group work/teamwork is defined as noticing, not normalizing, one’s own and/or others’ distress or disadvantaging and taking wise action to prevent or reduce this. This notion of compassion is being assessed in the HE sector using filmed task-focused in-class group work meetings to identify levels of both inclusivity and criticality around the team. This study investigates the use and outcomes of using the compassionate communications strategies (that were developed in and for the offline classroom) in online team meetings. In this mixed-methods study, two groups of four international STEM students, each from a sample of five UK universities, were video-recorded in task-focused group work meetings (TGMs) before and after an online interactive 90-min training session (‘the intervention’) on the Cognitive Skills of Compassionate Communications (CSCC) in teams. A comparison of the (pre and post CSCC intervention) quantitative and qualitative data results indicated, post-intervention, a significant increase in students’ screen gaze attentiveness to each other, and reasons why students’ motivation to switch on their cameras had changed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-532f611f7d834249b4f59e470a7ca0532023-11-23T10:45:26ZengMDPI AGEducation Sciences2227-71022022-04-0112531710.3390/educsci12050317How UK HE STEM Students Were Motivated to Switch Their Cameras on: A Study of the Development of Compassionate Communications in Task-focused Online Group MeetingsJ. M. P. V. K. Jayasundara0Theo Gilbert1Saskia Kersten2Li Meng3School of Humanities, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9EU, UKLearning and Teaching Innovations Centre, School of Business School, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9EU, UKSchool of Physics, Engineering & Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9AB, UKSchool of Physics, Engineering & Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9AB, UKHE’s pandemic-driven shift to online platforms has increased social and learning disconnection amongst students. In online group work/teamwork, many are reluctant to switch on their cameras to be more present to others. Compassion in group work/teamwork is defined as noticing, not normalizing, one’s own and/or others’ distress or disadvantaging and taking wise action to prevent or reduce this. This notion of compassion is being assessed in the HE sector using filmed task-focused in-class group work meetings to identify levels of both inclusivity and criticality around the team. This study investigates the use and outcomes of using the compassionate communications strategies (that were developed in and for the offline classroom) in online team meetings. In this mixed-methods study, two groups of four international STEM students, each from a sample of five UK universities, were video-recorded in task-focused group work meetings (TGMs) before and after an online interactive 90-min training session (‘the intervention’) on the Cognitive Skills of Compassionate Communications (CSCC) in teams. A comparison of the (pre and post CSCC intervention) quantitative and qualitative data results indicated, post-intervention, a significant increase in students’ screen gaze attentiveness to each other, and reasons why students’ motivation to switch on their cameras had changed.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/12/5/317cognitive skillscompassionteam/group workonlinescreen gaze |
| spellingShingle | J. M. P. V. K. Jayasundara Theo Gilbert Saskia Kersten Li Meng How UK HE STEM Students Were Motivated to Switch Their Cameras on: A Study of the Development of Compassionate Communications in Task-focused Online Group Meetings Education Sciences cognitive skills compassion team/group work online screen gaze |
| title | How UK HE STEM Students Were Motivated to Switch Their Cameras on: A Study of the Development of Compassionate Communications in Task-focused Online Group Meetings |
| title_full | How UK HE STEM Students Were Motivated to Switch Their Cameras on: A Study of the Development of Compassionate Communications in Task-focused Online Group Meetings |
| title_fullStr | How UK HE STEM Students Were Motivated to Switch Their Cameras on: A Study of the Development of Compassionate Communications in Task-focused Online Group Meetings |
| title_full_unstemmed | How UK HE STEM Students Were Motivated to Switch Their Cameras on: A Study of the Development of Compassionate Communications in Task-focused Online Group Meetings |
| title_short | How UK HE STEM Students Were Motivated to Switch Their Cameras on: A Study of the Development of Compassionate Communications in Task-focused Online Group Meetings |
| title_sort | how uk he stem students were motivated to switch their cameras on a study of the development of compassionate communications in task focused online group meetings |
| topic | cognitive skills compassion team/group work online screen gaze |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/12/5/317 |
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