Healey-Benson, Felicity and Johnson, Mike and Adams, Catherine and Turville, Joni (2022) What is it like for a learner to participate in a Zoom Breakout Room session? In: Thirteenth International Conference on Networked Learning 2022, 16-18th May 2022, Sundsvall, Sweden.
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Though virtual classrooms are not new, the COVID-19 pandemic sent many teachers and students online for the first time. This paper examines the use of a web-based video conferencing tool, Zoom, and in particular, the use of breakout rooms as part of a student’s learning experience. We ask: what is it like for a learner to participate in a Zoom Breakout Room session? Using Max van Manen’s (2016) phenomenology of practice, we collected learners’ lived experience descriptions of participating in a Zoom breakout room, then reflected on them phenomenologically as a way to generate new insights into this recently common online learning experience. Four moments are portrayed: a learner’s arrest at the announcement of breakout rooms; a learner’s transition into a breakout room as existential suspension; surveilling self and others in a breakout room; and exiting the breakout room as a moment of foreclosure and re-disorientation. The paper compares Zoom breakout rooms with aspects of video-gaming and notices a detriment to Freirean problem-posing education if students can avoid standing, unmediated, behind just their words, even in the relative safety of a small group of peers.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Additional Information: | Healey-Benson, F., Johnson, M.R., Adams, C.A., & Turville, J. (2022). What it is like for a learner to participate in a Zoom Breakout Room session? Proceedings for the Thirteenth International Conference on Networked Learning 2022, Sundsvall, Sweden, 16-18 May 2022. Edited by: Jaldemark, J., Håkansson Lindqvist, M., Mozelius, P., Öberg, A., De Laat, M., Dohn, N.B., Ryberg. https://prod-aaudxp-cms-001-app.azurewebsites.net/media/ebadergh/1274674_proceedings-for-the-thirteenth-international-conference-on-networked-learning_.pdf p.446-455. |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) T Technology > T Technology (General) |
| Divisions: | Research Innovation and Enterprise Services |
| Depositing User: | Dr Felicity Healey-Benson |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Jun 2023 10:31 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Oct 2023 14:50 |
| URI: | https://repository.uwtsd.ac.uk/id/eprint/2452 |
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