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Fostering student engagement and participation –Online tools in and out of class
@dannydotliu
School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science
Building understanding
• First year biology• Ramping content and competencies
• 400 in lectures, 60 in laboratory classes, 120 in tutorials
• Disengagement and isolation?
• Online tools• Fast, free, user-friendly
• Impactful
Safe environment
Self efficacy Learning community
Student voice
Socrative – breaking barriers
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Icebreaker
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Post-lecture survey
Socrative – breaking barriers
• Suggestions• Reduce and focus class content
• Force yourself to ‘chunk’ class time
• Make questions challenging
• Encourage group discussion
• Give immediate feedback on responses – be ready to jump around and review concepts
• Try short responses
• Try it yourself• http://t.socrative.com
Piazza – a common student space
• Students use Facebook, but not Blackboard, for discussions• Modern, user-friendly, fast, intuitive
• Moving their discussions into a moderated space
• Live examples• BIOL1XX1 in semester 1, 2014: https://piazza.com/class/hrswcnmjpg35vt
• MBLG1001 in semester 2, 2014: https://piazza.com/class/hwpkdhs6pdx65k
Piazza – a common student space
Piazza – a common student space
• Suggestions• Make it fair: direct all student questions to the site
– no emails
• Give students space and time to answer questions
• Be active and mind your tone
• Assessments help to drive discussion
• Recruit student helpers?
• Assign marks for participation?
• Try it yourself• http://www.piazza.com
• Available as an LTI tool within Blackboard
Instructor-centred
Student-centred
PeerWise – crowd-sourced assessment
• Student-generated questions online• Students write their own MCQs including feedback
• Students answer, comment, and rate peers’ questions
• Live example• BIOL1XX1 in semester 1, 2014:
https://peerwise.cs.auckland.ac.nz/course/main.php?course_id=8911
PeerWise – crowd-sourced assessment
PeerWise – crowd-sourced assessment
• Suggestions• Give students hints for ‘hacking’ and
building MCQs
• Seed the database with a fewquestions
• Use good student questions in assessments
• Assign nominal marks for contributing?
• Try it yourself• https://peerwise.cs.auckland.ac.nz
When you’re constructing a multiple-choice question you have to think about all the possibilities, misconceptions people may have… a nice way to revise
I liked it because I kept trying to make a question that people would get wrong… it felt good when my question was used
Prezi – interactive collaboration
• Leverage PNR learning studio spaces for collaboration
• Example: Prezi as a tool to bring together scale and relationships
• Try it yourself• http://www.prezi.com
Google Drive – diverse collaborative options
• Practice examples• Concept mapping
• Collaborative document editing
• Whiteboarding
• Suggestions• Prime your students
• Browse and connect apps
• Try it yourself• https://drive.google.com
YouTube
• Practice examples• Pre-class videos
• Video walkthroughs
• Student-generated media
YouTube
• Suggestions for teacher videos• Start simple with DIY setup
• What content is best suited?
• Suggestions for student videos• Allow topic/style flexibility
• Showcase student creations
• Don’t underestimate your students
• Try it yourself• http://www.youtube.com
• Kaltura via Blackboard
• http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html
• Ink2Go or OmniDazzle
• http://www.digiexplanations.com/
Student Relationship Engagement & Early Warning Systems
• Assessing, tracking, and assisting students efficiently
