THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION TOWARD FACE-TO-FACE AND ONLINE COLLABORATIONS IN THE POST COVID-19 PANDEMIC

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Collaboration skills are one of the important factors that students must have for their success in the digital era of the 21st Century. This paper describes the results of survey research regarding students’ profile of face-to-face (F2F) and online collaboration skills as well as their differences in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era. Furthermore, the factors affecting the differences between the two types of collaboration skills are also explored. This study employed a Likert scale consisting of four aspects with 34 items overall. The data were collected online using Google Forms with the respondents of physics education students at one of the universities in Lampung, Indonesia. Of 177 respondents who participated in the survey, only 73 passed the screening of valid responses. Descriptive and inferential statistics were applied for the data analysis technique. The results, even though students’ online collaboration skills are generally at the ‘high level’, found that students’ perceived collaboration skills between F2F and online were significantly different, both for overall score and for each aspect of collaboration skills. The interview results show that there are five factors regarding the difficulties students face during online learning as the cause of the differences. These findings imply that although students have experienced a long period of online learning, educators should take into account the challenges students face in online collaboration so that their online collaboration skills will improve as well as their F2F collaboration skills.