Online Learning as a Panacea? An Empirical Study to Discuss Problem-Based Cooperative Learning in Taiwan

Farn-Shing Chen,Hong-Sen Ke,Yuan-Chen Chen

doi:10.3991/ijet.v15i18.15079

Abstract

Due to the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), many schools and universities have closed worldwide, however, the UNESCO recommended the use of distance learning to reach learners remotely and limit the disruption of education. this is an empirical study to discuss if the role of online learning really helps learners to learn programming design better on problem-based cooperative learning. This study adopted a quasi-experimental and nonequivalent control-group design, and it carried out a 7-week experimental instruction by applying online and face-to-face cooperative learning methods. The programming design learning achievement pretest and posttest were used to collect the data from the participants. And it shown that the different cooperative learning methods had significant differences in their achievement, learning online was helpful, but face-to-face learning was superior significantly than online learning in this study.

Highlights

2020, it is a dramatic year, full of changes and tough challenges, the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) affected our life safety, and the financial development and the global situation, more importantly, our educational system and the students’ right to education have been influenced
The results showed that the different problem-based cooperative learning methods had significant differences in programming design learning
This study found that the learners had learning difficulties to explain and express what they really wanted to say by using online discussion to learn programming design

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Introduction

2020, it is a dramatic year, full of changes and tough challenges, the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) affected our life safety, and the financial development and the global situation, more importantly, our educational system and the students’ right to education have been influenced. Some researches shown that the digital natives had positive learning attitudes, and they participated actively during the problemsolving process [9, 10]. They liked to learn programming design and they wanted to improve their programming [11]. In order to inspire the learners’ motivation and to learn programming better, and to combine the issue of distance learning due to the coronavirus pandemic, this study used problem-based cooperative learning to discuss the differences between the traditional discussion method and the online method

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