Influence of online collaborative learning on social network and academic performance of medical students: lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The social distancing restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic have changed students' learning environment and limited their social interactions. Therefore, the objective of this study was to investigate the influence of the social distancing restrictions on students' social networks, wellbeing, and academic performance.

Methods

We performed a questionnaire study in which 102 students participated before and 167 students during the pandemic. They completed an online questionnaire about how they formed their five peer social networks (study-related support, collaboration, friendship, share information, and learn-from) out-of-class. We performed social network analysis to compare the sizes, structures, and compositions of students' five social networks before and

SUBMITTER: Zhou Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10444989 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature