Affiliation:
1. University of Houston-Downtown, USA
Abstract
With online pedagogy becoming mainstream during COVID, research on digital instruction grew dramatically, finding that online pedagogy was on par with face-to-face methods. Adding to this body of work this chapter assesses collaborations to provide meaningful student deliberations. Of particular importance was how students created dialogue and were academically reflective as they lived in geographically dispersed locations from Texas to California, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and Wisconsin. Indeed, significant findings provided proof that over the course of sixteen plus years including during COVID students fostered a multiplicity of academic reflective deliberations. With the rapidly evolving educational landscape this chapter provides evidentiary proof that carefully designed online collaborations provide effective deliberative communities, an amenable design for any discipline.