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ASIA PACIFIC EDUCATION REVIEW
Volume 22, Issue 2, Pages 169-179Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12564-021-09686-w
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Student teachers; COVID-19; Online collaborative learning; Teacher education; China
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Student teachers' experience of online collaborative learning has a positive impact on their views about future teaching, with their personal experiences seen as crucial for their development as teachers.
In March 2020, universities in China transitioned to online education in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and intensified the focus on collaboration in online learning. However, little is known about the impact of undertaking online collaborative learning (OCL) on student teachers' views about the process and about their own teaching and learning. This qualitative study examined 18 student teachers' views about their experience of OCL and the way it affected them as learners and future teachers. The participants reported that OCL helped them develop varied views of learning and had a positive effect on their views about the future use of OCL. They saw their personal experience of OCL as an important aspect of their development as teachers. These findings highlight ways that online learning can shape the views and professionalism of student teachers. Future teacher training programs can provide OCL as a teaching experience at an early stage to help transform student teachers' self-understanding from that of a student to that of a teacher. The findings of this study further reveal that online collaborative teacher training offers student teachers an opportunity to collaborate, discuss, and reflect on their professional development as teachers. This encourages teacher educators to reconsider how new forms of practice and teaching theories can be woven together more effectively in post-COVID teacher training.
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