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ArticleHigher education2022

Social tie formation of COVID-19 students: evidence from a two-cohort longitudinal study.

Margret Sigrun Sigurdardottir, Magnus Thor Torfason, Anna Helga Jonsdottir

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Article in Higher education, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Margret Sigrun SigurdardottirFaculty of Business Administration, University of Iceland, Sæmundargata 2, 102 Reykjavik, Iceland.
Magnus Thor TorfasonFaculty of Business Administration, University of Iceland, Sæmundargata 2, 102 Reykjavik, Iceland.
Anna Helga JonsdottirFaculty of Physical Sciences, University of Iceland, Sæmundargata 2, 102 Reykjavik, Iceland.
University of Iceland · IS

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic and the consequent move of higher education to online courses has disrupted the learning paths of many students. Social network data were collected from two cohorts of students, those starting their higher education in normal conditions in 2017 and those starting in 2020 during the pandemic. The findings showed that students in the 2020 cohort reported making fewer connections at the beginning of the first semester and developed significantly fewer connections during the first semester. Female students lost the relative advantage they had compared with male students in developing new connections. Based on our findings, and because of the importance of social connections made during the first year of study, the 2020 cohort will need considerable support in catching up with previous cohorts. The findings provide strong support for the assumption that online studies offer limited possibilities in building social connections compared with on-campus education.

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COVID-19Higher educationHigher education experienceOnline classesSocial networks

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PMID36248915
PMCPMC9540161
OpenAlexW4303195817

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