How to Create Active and Engaging Learning Experiences with Zoom Breakout Rooms - Contact North

Event Date: 
Thursday, May 20, 2021 - 11:00am to 12:00pm EDT
Event Location: 
Online
Event Contact Name: 
Kathy Boczek
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Date: Thursday, May 20, 2021

Time: 11:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) (find your time zone here)

Zoom’s breakout rooms provide a unique opportunity to learn to create active and engaging learning experiences for students.

Join Contact North | Contact Nord’s Research Associate, Dr. Ron Owston, who describes how educators can:

  • Move beyond holding ineffective, unstructured breakout room discussions
  • Create distinctive breakout room roles for students to promote active participation
  • Employ a variety of tools and techniques to enhance breakout room experiences
  • Pre-assign students to breakout rooms or allow them to chose their own
  • Design creative ways for students to report breakout room outcomes to the whole class
  • Make use of breakout rooms in large enrolment courses
  • Participants have ample opportunity to ask questions during the webinar.

NOTE: Registrants are expected to have a basic knowledge of how to use Zoom.

Contact North is a non-profit organization funded by the Government of Ontario to support Ontario's education and training providers.