CITRIS Educational Technology Breakout John Canny, Pat Mantey, Mike Clancy, Jim Slotta, Ben Yoo, James Landay September 18th, 2001

Goals of this breakout: Review best practices and research explorations in educational tech. on campus. Find opportunities for collaboration and leverage for/by other CITRIS research

Tele-laboratories Labs provide a rich learning environment faculty mentoring and peer learning. Virtual labs should provide: A workspace focused on projects, teams Ways for teams to collaborate live Coordination and project management

NEES: A national Tele-laboratory NEES: The Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation + PRoPs

Best practices: TVI & peer instruction TVI (Tutored Video Instruction) and DTVI have shown the best outcomes for computer-supported learning. Students view recorded lectures in small groups, and discuss among themselves. Peer discussion is critical.

Best practices: peer instruction In peer instruction, the lecturer asks a question, students vote on the answer, then discuss, then vote again. Measurable improvements in learning. Very popular in Chem 1A

Livenotes: virtual small team learning in large classrooms Borrows from TVI and peer instruction Students work in small virtual groups (~ 4 students) to share notes. Uses wireless pen tablets (CSCL 02).

Using Livenotes remotely Groups are split local/remote Remote students have an in-class proxy Remote learning is much more like local learning

Livenotes deployment Used in grad classes in Spring of 2000 and 2001. Testing in undergrad class (User interfaces) this semester, 40 students each with a clio/wireless.