The new breakout room feature of newrow_ aims to support both student-created and instructor-led interactive video group discussions by:
- Allowing students to create after-class study groups – The feature supports an “advanced way” for students to self-organize and initiate their own learning conversations, says the company. This includes the ability to create persistent study groups throughout the course of a semester. Similar to traditional study group meetups in a library, study rooms mimic the collaborative aspects of face-to-face collaboration with live video, text chat functions and real-time resource sharing. A student can start a study room, invite peers and collaborate as if they were all physically together.
- Enabling instructors to create on-the-spot, in-class group video discussions – During online lectures, this feature allows instructors to create timed, live face-to-face breakout discussion groups of up to 10 students each. These instructor-prompted sessions can be recorded and housed in the online learning library for future reference by students and faculty. Course organizers can also use this feature for term-long group project management.
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“Our goal is to remove learning barriers for students by giving them a seamless way to facilitate the discussions they want and need to have with peers,” said Zarom. “This ensures that the most effective type of learning – peer learning – becomes a natural part of how students become educated online.”
For more information on the newrow_ for education breakout session feature, visit http://www.newrow.com/solutions/education/.
Material from a press release was used in this report.
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