Investigating Technology: Lecture Software in Hospitality Education

Ali Green, Ph.D & Gail Sammons, Ph.D.

Comparing Lecture Software

Research Questions:

Are there any differences in student engagement using lecture software between hospitality students in the U.S. and Singapore?

Are there any differences between U.S. and Singapore hospitality students when introduced to lecture software with regards to active learning, knowledge, involvement, and enjoyment of the instructional technology?

Instrument

• Student Engagement Survey (SES) (Green & Tanford)

• The SES is a 20 question instrument.• five point Likert-type scale • Measure 4 constructs:• Active learning• Knowledge• Involvement • Enjoyment

Instructors

Country Instructors Classes Students

Singapore 1 (4 sections) Org. Behavior Students n= 167

U.S. 5 (1 section Each) Finance, Services, HR, Accounting

Students n=170

Design

Used the software tool during two weeks in class in the spring 2014 semester.

All students had access to a computer, either laptop or computer lab.

All Instructors used the lecture software tool for presentations (uploaded presentations), polling questions, question slides, and attendance.

No Significance Found

Using "lecture software" is helpful in reinforcing course concepts.

I would recommend the use of "lecture software" in other classes within the hospitality college.

Lecture software are easy to use.

Finding out the correct answer to the "lecture software" question is important to me.

The weaknesses included:

Lecture software was clunky.

Felt like it stifled conversation as the students were typing, not listening or speaking within class.

Raised hand did not work instantaneously, unlike clickers. Had to refresh screen.No animation.Polling was delayed.

Some of the strengths the faculty described included:

The software was intuitive and simple to use.

Raised hand – allowed the student to be noticed. (This faculty member used the computer and projector for the classroom and an ipad as they walked around the classroom so they could refresh frequently.

Liked the notes feature for the students.

Liked the ability to draw on the screen to accentuate important points being presented.Integration of video is seamless.

Lecture software allowed polling questions to have more than one answer. Great for talking points!

Acknowledgement. This study was conducted with instructors that volunteered their time and gave feedback about the study. The study partly funded by Echo360 Research Grants Program. The sponsor of the grant did not have any influence on the design, collection, analysis, or interpretation of the study or manuscript outcome.

What does this study mean to you?

Technology Active Learning Student Engagement

Polling

Media

Notes

Ability to Highlight

Notes and highlights

Classroom Technology

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2014 Top 100 Tools for Learninghttp://c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools

1 - Twitter2 - Google Docs/Drive3 - YouTube4 – PowerPoint5 - Google Search6 - WordPress7 - Dropbox8 - Evernote9 - Facebook10 - LinkedIn

11 - Google+ & Hangouts12 - Moodle13 - Prezi14 - Pinterest15 - Slideshare16 - Blogger17 - Word18 - Wikipedia19 - Feedly20 - Diigo

Virtual Note Pad• Padlet.com – http://padlet.com/gail_sammons/activelearning– QR code for active learning

• Collect expectations • Reference sharing• Happy sheet evaluation• Report from groups

Padlet – Quadrants

Padlet – Streaming

Freeform:you can change sizesand move boxes Around.

Brainstorming - Gingkoapp

Good example used during a two day training sessionhttps://www.gingkoapp.com/social-media-for-trainers-notes-from-training

Interactive story building tool

• https://writer.inklestudios.com/

Ed.Ted• Build a lesson around any TED-Ed Original, TED

Talk or YouTube videoSample:http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-set-the-table-anna-post

App Cheat SheetMac, Ipad, Iphone

• PickMeBuzzer– Lots of uses – games

• Ideation or Brainstorming– Inspiration Lab– Idea Sketch

• Text to Speech– Dragon dictation– Indoor exercise

Collaboration

• Whiteboard• AnywherePad 2• BaiBoard HD

Podcasts

• Voice Record (very robust) • QuickVoice Pro (pretty good as well) • Vodcast • ScreenChomp • ShowMe • Doceri

Screen Capture/Recorder

• ScreenChomp– Creating visual tutorials or demonstrations

• Whiteboard– Two person collaboration

• Showme– Creating tutorials

Screen Broadcast

• Reflector (need to be on the same network—will work on an ad hoc network)

• Assessment • Socrative • Nearpod

Wireless Control

• Doceri• Splashtop2

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