B: Beyond Mere Breakout Sessions: Ensuring Productive Cooperation in Online Learning (Online)

Goals of the course:

Participants will

• use quick and easy methods and tricks for activation in online classroom
• identify tools for cooperation and reflect on their use in own teaching
• apply theoretical foundations for successful group work to own task design
• exchange personal experience

Productive cooperative learning strongly relies on interaction. This and other fundamentals of
designing cooperative learning scenarios have been well-known long before the pandemic. Still,
utilizing them in a productive fashion seems to have been difficult in these last semesters. Now that
people are generally more used to digital settings, we should explore learning and teaching options
that go beyond the mere assignment to breakout sessions.

In this workshop we want to experience different well-established methods for cooperative work and
evaluate in how far they can be implemented in a digital environment using easily accessible
technology.

Together we will find out in how far the digital execution of these methods enables a strong
promotion of interaction, a good sense of digital competencies and a productive learning
environment. We will evaluate the pros and cons of using digital tools compared to non-digital tools
and generate checklists and criteria that help us designing such scenarios in the future.

Tools:

This seminar will take place via Zoom.

You will receive the link for the meeting room along with further information around one week in advance.

Please note the conditions of participation.

Organisational details:

The seminar "Beyond Mere Breakout Sessions: Ensuring Productive Cooperation in Online Learning", held by Sophia Hercher, will take place on

• Friday, 12 August 2022, 9 am - 12:30 pm

The course language is English and native and non-native speakers are equally welcome.

Participants will receive 4 work unit credits (AE) in the area B (Basic Level).

This seminar is free of charge.
Please use our application form to sign in for this class.

Reservation status:

 All course places are occupied. If you register now, you will be put on the waiting list.