Abstract
There are benefits and challenges related to the recent worldwide Covid-19-driven surge of social-media collaborative learning in higher education. This research examines the antecedents influencing this ‘new normal’ phenomenon among university students to provide a causal model of understanding. This study was based on a purposive sample; a questionnaire was completed by 371 university students. The analysis of the data obtained using applied structural equation modelling of the partial least-squares technique, it was found that the most influential antecedents included collaborative capability and perceived enjoyment. Based on the results, we recommend that, owing to the turbulent and changing requirements of social distancing and distance learning, educational institutions and stakeholders invest in the improvement of implied social-media collaboration and learning platforms.
Highlights
Since the World Health Organization (WHO) officially codified the type-2 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus as the ‘COVID-19’ disease in February 2020 [1], the pandemic has spread to all corners of the world, exerting shocking and sometimes catastrophic impacts to people from all walks of life
The findings reported in this research demonstrate that collaborative capability and perceived enjoyment are likely to be the most powerful causal factors influencing university students’ adoption of social-media platforms for collaborative learning during the COVID-19 ‘new normal’ era
The results suggest that collaborative capability and perceived enjoyment exert a direct effect on university students’ adoption of the platforms
Summary
Since the World Health Organization (WHO) officially codified the type-2 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus as the ‘COVID-19’ disease in February 2020 [1], the pandemic has spread to all corners of the world, exerting shocking and sometimes catastrophic impacts to people from all walks of life. The government declared an emergency decree on March 24, 2020 that detailed several restrictions, such as confining citizens to their residences during specified periods, blocking departures from ports of exit and prohibiting travel across provinces. After the first COVID-19 wave subsided in June, 2020, several sectors of society began to talk about the ‘new normal’, a term coined by the Royal Society of Thailand pertaining to the new lifestyle restrictions, under which many pre-existing, familiar and predictable conventions and practices were replaced by new, unfamiliar and sometimes unpredictable ones [3, 4]. The ‘new normal’ lifestyle encompasses patterns of thought, learning, communications and organizational management techniques that are adapted more for human survival rather than maintaining the status quo of tradition [5]
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