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COVID-19 brought many challenges for higher education that are still being worked through. For our students and educators, collaboration and groupwork were forced to take on a new virtual dimension. Face-to-Face student collaboration and groupwork strategies needed to be re-envisioned for the virtual environment and given institutions commitment to...

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... ranged from Discussion Forums in the ubiquitous LMS (although 2 institutions did not identify discussion forums as a key feature) to a broad range of less widely used tools. When asked, institutions identified that the most widely used of these tools was the LMS Tools/Discussion and Zoom (Figure 2). Comparatively, despite institutions providing central funded tools, not all teaching staff make use of the tools available. ...
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... despite institutions providing central funded tools, not all teaching staff make use of the tools available. For example 30 institution (Figure 1) indicated they provide LMS Discussion Forums, but only 19 of these institutions (Figure 2) indicated that the LMS discussion tool was widely used. A similar patter is seen for Zoom. ...

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