MIT Guided Inquiry/Tutorials: On Line Delivery of Review Tutorials and ComplexProblems in Science and Engineering Steven Lerman, John Belcher, Haynes Miller, Karen Willcox

Overview MITGIT will be built around structured educational materials, with self-contained tests of student understanding at critical steps in the conceptual development of the material. The framework will be used to either deliver homework problems or tutorials for courses in the General Institute Requirements. It can be used both for students in those freshmen courses as well as for students in upper level courses who are seeking to review material from foundational courses.

Implementation Our test bed development will be based on the courses in which the faculty investigators on this proposal are involved (8.02, 18.03, and 16.060). This includes faculty from Physics and Mathematics, who are involved in the design and delivery of foundational courses. And a faculty member from Aeronautics and Astronautics who teaches an upper level course which relies heavily on material taught in foundational courses.

Features Presentation of educational content as a series of modules, including text, streaming video, and applets. Posing a sequence of questions such that correct answers at each stage are necessary to proceed to later stages. A hint/review structure that allows a student to ask for hints or access to online review resources for a given question. A general authoring tool for creating review modules and course problems. A grading structure that records student performance and time spent on individual parts of the tutorial or problem and the number of hints/reviews requested Grade or certification for each student on problems/modules.