IT HAS POTENTIAL BUT…’ – EXPLORING UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES AND PERCEPTIONS OF BREAKOUT ROOMS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Teaching English with Technology Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI:10.56297/sahr6646

C. Savvidou, K. Alexander

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COVID-19 has created a dramatic and rapid transition to emergency remote teaching in higher education (HE) creating both new opportunities and challenges for lecturers and their students. As HE adapts to these new circumstances, there is a need for instructors to design and teach classes that support collaborative learning and increase opportunities for student interactivity. This article reports on an ongoing study exploring university students’ experiences and perceptions of using breakout rooms (BRs), a technical feature of many synchronous online platforms, as part of their online classes. Using a mixed methods research approach, 127 students, who were registered on English language courses at a university in Cyprus during Spring 2021, participated in the study. Findings indicate that students’ experiences and perceptions of breakout rooms during this period were impacted in five key areas: (1) emotional/affective, (2) moral/ethical, (3) social, (4) pedagogical and (5) technological. These findings suggest that students’ personal feelings, attitudes to online learning, sense of connectedness to their peers, expectations of the role and presence of the lecturer and issues relating to the technology, are all considered to be significant factors in their use of BRs. This study offers initial insights for educators who wish to use, modify and/or adapt synchronous online teaching to incorporate collaborative learning opportunities through breakout rooms. Keywords: higher education; synchronous online teaching; breakout rooms; collaborative learning; student experiences; COVID-19

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它有潜力，但……”——探索大学生在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间对分组讨论室的体验和看法

新冠肺炎给高等教育（HE）中的紧急远程教学带来了戏剧性和快速的转变，为讲师及其学生带来了新的机会和挑战。随着高等教育适应这些新环境，教师需要设计和教授支持协作学习的课程，并增加学生互动的机会。本文报道了一项正在进行的研究，该研究探讨了大学生在网上课程中使用分组会议室（BR）的体验和看法，分组会议室是许多同步在线平台的技术特征。采用混合方法研究方法，127名学生参加了这项研究，他们在2021年春季在塞浦路斯一所大学注册了英语课程。研究结果表明，在此期间，学生对休息室的体验和看法在五个关键领域受到影响：（1）情感/情感，（2）道德/伦理，（3）社会，（4）教学和（5）技术。这些发现表明，学生的个人感受、对在线学习的态度、与同龄人的联系感、对讲师角色和存在的期望以及与技术相关的问题，都被认为是他们使用BR的重要因素。这项研究为那些希望使用、修改和/或调整同步在线教学以通过分组会议室融入协作学习机会的教育工作者提供了初步见解。关键词：高等教育；同步在线教学；分组会议室；协作学习；学生经历；2019冠状病毒疾病

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Teaching English with Technology Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Teaching English with Technology (TEwT) is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal that seeks to disseminate cutting-edge work focused mainly on the use of technology in TESOL (Teaching English To Speakers of Other Languages). The journal is interested in theoretical and practical articles that resonate with an international audience. TEwT occasionally publishes special issues in more specialised areas of technology use in education.