Exploring Online Teaching-Learning during COVID-19: A Comparative Study of Team Based Learning and Non-Team Based Learning

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic forced the worldwide and sudden transformations of conventional live teaching strategy to online ICT based format in engineering education. Cognitive engagement of students is the main challenge during online teaching-learning platform. Teambased learning (TBL) is a collaborative teaching-learning approach that allows students to follow a structured procedure to enrich student cognitive engagement in the online platform. This paper is focused on comparative studies of team based learning and non-team based learning for a course “Advance Database System†in computer science and engineering department. The hypothesis is considered that TBL is best learning approach to cognitive engagement of students in the online platform. T-test and Chi-square test is applied to analyse the result. The results exhibited that TBL is the superior learning method and the hypothesis was proved and accepted.