ERIC Number: EJ1394547
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Oct
Pages: 19
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ISSN: ISSN-1387-1579
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MOTEMO-OUTDOOR: Ensuring Learning and Health Security during the COVID-19 Pandemic through Outdoor and Online Environments in Higher Education
Mateo-Canedo, Corel; Crespo-Puig, Neus; Cladellas, Ramon; Méndez-Ulrich, Jorge Luis; Sanz, Antoni
Learning Environments Research, v26 n3 p823-841 Oct 2023
The restriction measures put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic posed notable challenges for formal teaching-learning processes because they had to be adapted to ensure health security. An active learning programme applied to three environments (indoors, outdoors, and online) was tested with 273 undergraduate university students in a within-subjects experimental study. Each student was assigned to two indoor and two outdoor seminars, with a subsample (n = 30) also participating in online seminars implemented in response to the university's lockdown protocols. The learning experience and learning conditions were evaluated through six dimensions: learning, evaluative impact, hedonic experience, technical conditions, environmental conditions, and health security. Outdoor seminars were more effective than indoor seminars in terms of the learning experience, with greater differences in hedonic experience, while the indoor seminars were rated more highly than the outdoor seminars in terms of learning conditions, with a larger difference in the environmental conditions. No differences were found between online and face-to-face environments in terms of the learning experience, even though the online environment yielded better scores in the learning conditions. Apparently, this adaptation to both outdoor and online contexts through active methodologies allows overcoming of technical, environmental, and teaching limitations and improves health security, while ensuring a good learning experience and added flexibility to teaching-learning processes.
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Undergraduate Students, Outdoor Education, Online Courses, Seminars, In Person Learning, School Closing, Program Effectiveness, Educational Environment, Educational Technology, Health Promotion
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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