Abstract
When COVID-19 spread from China, the majority of people witnessed that the form of education changed. This situation has increased the need for online education platforms. Although videoconference platforms such as Zoom and Google Meet became popular to meet the requirement, these platforms have some drawbacks. To illustrate, the majority of students are not active and cannot take a proactive role during the lectures. Furthermore, they stay idle and get bored on the waiting rooms of these platforms. To fill this gap, an extendable functioning waiting room was created by using ASP.NET framework via Visual Studio platform. Proposed waiting room present a solution for enhancing user experience (UX) by increasing user engagement on the online education platform. This chapter would be interesting for not only educators who use online learning platforms but also videoconference platform users and developers.
TopBackground
Covid-19 pandemic period has increased research and articles on online education and its effects. This section will be based on these studies. In this section, studies related with students’ concentration and participation problems on online education, importance of user experience (UX), efficiency of online learning environments for students and educators, useful properties that supports online education platforms will be discussed.
Key Terms in this Chapter
HTML: Hyper Text Markup Language.
Online Education Platform: A platform where educators and students can perform education and training with the help of a website and internet connection.
Zoom: Online meeting platform that was created by Zoom.
User Experience (UX): A person’s emotions and behaviors about a product, a system, or a service.
Participation: The activity of joining in something.
Visual Studio: Coding platform of Microsoft for web sites, desktop applications and mobile applications.
User Engagement: Participating an organization for the user’s welfare.
Concentration: The power of focusing on anyone or anything.
Waiting Room: A virtual room where students can productively spend time before educator accept them on online education platforms.
Pandemic: Epidemic of an infectious disease that spreads throughout more than one continent or worldwide.
Google Meet: Online meeting platform that was created by Google.
C#: Programming language that was developed by Microsoft.
ASP.NET: Open source and web-application framework which was created by Microsoft.
COVID-19: Known as Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) disease that started from some animals that infected some people at Wuhan/China in 2019, and spread to all around the world.
Efficiency: The ratio analysis of input and output.