Beyond the Room Full of Black Screens: Exploring an Engagement-Enhancing Alternative to Zoom

• In Event: DELT- Learning Technologies for Engagement

Short Description

During and post-pandemic, Zoom has maintained an influence as one of the most popular web-conferencing platform options. However, there is a growing concern over so called ‘Zoom fatigue’ and an increasing awareness of the impact of educators’ presence and usage of such tools on student engagement. This mixed-methods study investigated the experience of an educator integrating a novel web-conferencing tool, which includes additional active learning features, into an educational psychology class.

Authors

• Contributor: Audon Gilbert Archibald, University of North Texas

• Contributor: Danielle 'Teo' Keifert, University o North Texas

• Contributor: Tania Heap, University of North Texas