Analyzing College Students' Social Cognitive Construction and Emotion in Different Types of Online Synchronous Collaborations of a Creative Task

Abstract

Cognition and emotion in online collaboration play an important role in achieving high-quality collaboration performance. Especially in the online synchronous collaborative environment, the limited time and place require higher language instantaneity and flexibility of thinking, which brings great challenges to students' high cognitive behavior and emotional experience. However, few empirical studies have focused on the cognition and emotion of students in online synchronous collaboration. Therefore, a quasi-experimental study was conducted based on a creative synchronous collaboration task to explore the effects, social knowledge construction and emotional experience of Multi-Input and One-Output(MIOO) collaboration and Multi-Input and Multi-Output(MIMO) collaboration. The findings indicated that the MIMO collaboration groups performed better than the MIOO collaboration groups in creative achievements, but were more affected by technology. Besides., the MIOO collaboration groups had a higher degree of social knowledge construction and more positive emotional experiences.