A Collaborative and Competition-based Learning Approach for Enhanced Student Engagement and Performance; Pre, During, and Post-Covid Perspectives

Conventional lectures without engagement are not always quite effective in facilitating learning, and students often lose their learning interest in these eventless sessions. A solution to this could be creating an active learning environment by incorporating cooperative and interactive activities into conventional lectures. Live/Online Student Response Systems (OSRS) are excellent tools to serve that purpose. In this paper, a collaborative learning approach for enhanced learning experience and performance by using OSRS from different perspectives has been explored. The aim is to illustrate that this method can provide a complementary pedagogical approach to the traditional didactic lecture format and offer greater class engagement, improved learning outcomes, higher attendance rates, and higher student satisfaction when applied in different delivery setups in pre-covid, during covid, and post-covid classroom environments.