Active learning strategies are instructional activities that involve students doing things and thinking about what they are doing. An active learning framework can help you consider how your students…
When students purposefully encounter, engage, and reflect on new information, active learning is taking place and information is retained much better. One of the online teacher’s best tools to promote active learning is virtual breakout rooms for students in small groups or pairs.
Echo360’s Echosystem is a portfolio of engagement solutions designed and used to achieve engagement and positive learning outcomes. Part of the portfolio is a program called EchoEngage. EchoEngage supports online education in a variety of ways. One of its most exciting set of features is the built-in virtual classroom video tool, which allows for screen sharing, whiteboarding, and virtual breakout rooms for students.
In a physical classroom, it’s easy to have students quickly group into pairs or small groups to solve a problem, discuss a concept, or otherwise engage with information presented by the teacher. Online classes are no different when you use EchoEngage’s virtual breakout rooms. As the instructor, you can assign students to breakout rooms randomly or choose who gets into which group. Here are some ideas for using virtual breakout rooms to help your students with active learning.
After presenting a new concept that students may or may not agree with, you can create four breakout rooms: strongly agree, agree, disagree, and strongly disagree. Then set the specific question that you want students to agree or disagree with and run a quick, anonymous poll (also available through EchoEngage) to see which students fall into which categories.
Then assign them to the appropriate breakout rooms, have them discuss the reasons behind their opinions, and appoint one member of the group to share with the class when the breakout rooms are closed. This requires students not only to think critically about an idea, but to take a public stance on how they feel about it.
An example idea might be, “Art classes should be graded purely on participation and not on the quality of the student’s work.” Any concept that can be debated can be used for this type of breakout room activity.
These are just a few of the countless ways you can use EchoEngage’s virtual breakout rooms to promote active learning in the classroom. The only limit to the ways you can use these breakout rooms is your imagination.
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If you want to use this essential tool in your online classroom, contact us today. We’ll help you understand more about how EchoEngage’s virtual breakout rooms work and how you can implement them in your class. At the same time, we can share the features of EchoVideo, EchoAuthor, and EchoExam, all of which work together to provide the best online learning experience possible.
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