With the increasing availability of synchronous video-based breakout rooms within online courses, there is a growing need to understand how to best leverage this technology for enhanced online education. To help address this challenge, this paper reports on a case study that explored student activity within online video-based breakout rooms via a Structured Paired Activity (SPA) methodology. SPA, which is adapted from the concept of Paired Programming, defines a general way to structure roles and activities for the participants within the breakout room. Initial qualitative results suggest that the use of SPA in online breakout rooms increases student engagement and process effectiveness. These results are potentially applicable to a broad range of web-based synchronous online courses.

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在分布式在线分组讨论会议室中使用结构化对活动

随着在线课程中基于视频的同步分组讨论室的可用性越来越高，越来越需要了解如何最好地利用此技术来增强在线教育。为了帮助应对这一挑战，本文报道了一个案例研究，该案例通过结构化配对活动（SPA）方法探索了基于在线视频的分组讨论室中的学生活动。SPA是从配对编程的概念改编而来的，它定义了在分组讨论室中为参与者组织角色和活动的一般方法。初步的定性结果表明，在线分组讨论室中使用SPA可提高学生的参与度和过程效率。这些结果可能适用于各种基于Web的同步在线课程。