Online Collaborative Workflow for Creating Learning Videos on Mental Health

Abstract

This paper describes an online collaborative workflow to facilitate the process of creating digital learning videos on mental health. Online collaboration allows more convenient ways for people to connect to each other anywhere and anytime. With the rapid development of technologies, online collaboration has become common and widely used for various purposes. The aims of this paper are two-fold, (1) To discuss how online collaborative workflow facilitates the overall creation processes of two digital learning videos on mental health knowledge and management and, (2) To identify key facilitative and impeding factors for a successful online collaborative workflow for creating digital learning videos on mental health. This paper presented the workflow and the findings of facilitating and impeding factors of online collaboration. Based on a qualitative data analysis of comments from collaborative members, four facilitative factors were identified as (a) individual commitment, (b) affective team support, (c) consensus and empowerment, and (d) clear instructions. There were also five impeding factors perceived by the collaborative members which are (a) lack of time, (b) challenges inherent to virtual communication, (c) technology and resource constraint, (d) lack of clear and tight guidelines, (e) lack of structured steps. Based on these findings, recommendations are provided for a more efficient online collaborative workflow to initiate group projects in online environments which is increasing in demand in the new normal era.