Students’ Engagement in Digital Mind Mapping-Supported Collaborative Learning during the Post-Pandemic Era

Abstract

Previous research has demonstrated the effectiveness of digital mind-mapping in improving student learning outcomes, creativity, critical thinking skills, and motivation. However, past studies rarely focused on student engagement when exploring the implementation of collaborative digital mind mapping in higher education. This study explored student engagement in a digital mind-mapping-supported collaborative classroom. The study was qualitative descriptive in nature, involving twenty fourth-semester students from a private university in Indonesia. The data were collected through observation and interview. The findings showed that students engaged cognitively, emotionally, and behaviorally in the collaborative mind-mapping activity. The findings mostly describe student-student and student-task engagement. Therefore, further investigations are needed to examine student-teacher engagement in a mind-mapping-supported collaborative learning setting.

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“…It also increases respect and understanding among students as they must formulate their thoughts before interacting with their peers and teachers. This finding is similar to those reported by Sari et al (2023), which revealed that 'students' emotional engagement in the language classroom could help them complete a task successfully.…”

“…By assigning research tasks and instructional videos for students to watch, teachers can encourage student engagement with the material (Berg, 2020) and interactive course materials that students can use (Vlachopoulos & Makri, 2019). When students interact with interactive learning content and tasks, they retrieve prior knowledge, process new knowledge, and synthesize both to produce knowledge (Berg, 2020;Sari et al, 2023).…”