Digital studying in times of COVID-19: teacher- and student-related aspects of learning success in german higher education.

Unlabelled: In the wake of COVID-19, study conditions in Europe have changed dramatically. To limit contact between students and teachers, since March 2020 teaching has largely taken place digitally (remotely via digital means) and in private. Because the success of digital learning likely relies on many factors beyond good digital infrastructure conditions, this article focuses on which aspects, at both the teacher and the student levels, promote digital learning success.

"You Are Not Alone"-Opportunities and Challenges for University Students' Collaborative Engagement When Dealing With Online Information About COVID-19.

In view of the COVID-19 pandemic, students had to cope with the challenging situation of handling a vast amount of potentially conflicting online information while staying informed. Reading conflicting scientific information has been shown to require cognitive effort for one to integrate it successfully, but reading such information during a crisis-such as the COVID-19 pandemic-may cause additional emotional stress, as students also had to cope with critical aspects of the pandemic (e.g.

Constraints and Affordances of Online Engagement With Scientific Information-A Literature Review.

Many urgent problems that societies currently face-from climate change to a global pandemic-require citizens to engage with scientific information as members of democratic societies as well as to solve problems in their personal lives. Most often, to solve their epistemic aims (aims directed at achieving knowledge and understanding) regarding such socio-scientific issues, individuals search for information online, where there exists a multitude of possibly relevant and highly interconnected sources of different perspectives, sometimes providing conflicting information. The paper provides a review of the literature aimed at identifying (a) constraints and affordances that scientific knowledge and the online information environment entail and (b) individuals' cognitive and motivational processes that have been found to hinder, or conversely, support practices of engagement (such as critical information evaluation or two-sided dialogue).

A review of technologies for collaborative online information seeking: On the contribution of collaborative argumentation.

In everyday life, people seek, evaluate, and use online sources to underpin opinions and make decisions. While education must promote the skills people need to critically question the sourcing of online information, it is important, more generally, to understand how to successfully promote the acquisition of any skills related to seeking online information. This review outlines technologies that aim to support users when they collaboratively seek online information.

Evident or doubtful? How lexical hints in written information influence laypersons' understanding of influenza.

There are clear differences in the way written information on health issues presents research findings. In some cases, the source of a piece of information (e.g.