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dc.contributor.authorGjerde, Vegard
dc.contributor.authorGray Jr, Robert
dc.contributor.authorHolst, Bodil
dc.contributor.authorKolstø, Stein Dankert
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-13T08:12:20Z
dc.date.available2021-10-13T08:12:20Z
dc.date.created2021-09-01T12:57:14Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.issn0031-9120
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2789526
dc.description.abstractIn March 2020, universities in Norway and many other countries shut down due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The students lost access to classrooms, libraries, study halls, and laboratories. Studying turned digital. Because it is unclear when this pandemic will cease to affect students and because we cannot know whether or when a new pandemic occurs, we need to find ways to improve digital study-life for students. An important step in this direction is to understand the students' experiences and perspectives regarding how the digitalization affected their study-life both in structured learning arenas and their self-study. Therefore, we interviewed 12 students in an introductory mechanics course at a Norwegian university in June of 2020. Through a thematic analysis, we identified four broad categories in the students' different experiences and reflections, namely that digitalization: (a) provides benefits, e.g. the flexibility inherent in online video lectures; (b) incurs learning costs, e.g. students reducing their study effort; (c) incurs social costs, e.g. missing being around other students; and (d) increases the need for structure, e.g. wanting to be arranged in digital groups to solve mandatory tasks. We also found that the 2019 students on average scored significantly better on the final exam than the 2020 students, d = 0.31, but we discuss why this result should be interpreted with caution. We provide suggestions for how to adapt courses to make students' digital studying more socially stimulating and effective. Furthermore, this study is a contribution to the historical documentation of the Covid-19 pandemic.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherIOP Publishingen_US
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.titleThe Covid-19 shutdown: when studying turns digital, students want more structureen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2021 the authorsen_US
dc.source.articlenumber055004en_US
cristin.ispublishedtrue
cristin.fulltextoriginal
cristin.qualitycode2
dc.identifier.doi10.1088/1361-6552/ac031e
dc.identifier.cristin1930451
dc.source.journalPhysics Educationen_US
dc.identifier.citationPhysics Education. 2021, 56 (5), 055004.en_US
dc.source.volume56en_US
dc.source.issue5en_US


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