Learning Inside and Outside the Classroom Anthony D. Joseph James A. Landay January 20, 2000

Challenges Inside the classroom –Project classes severely oversubscribed and understaffed –1 to 40 staff:student ratio –Commuter students miss lectures / mtgs Outside the classroom –Information half-life after graduation –Students learning out of sync with class offering

Our Goals Electronic Problem-Based Learning –Scale up number of students by 10x –Improve the quality of education –Work together anytime, anywhere –Use lecture time for interactive facilitation Interactive Meeting Capture / Share –More than just lecture capture: interactive Continuing education –Example: Off-campus 5 th year Masters

In-Classroom Techniques Electronic scaffolding for projects –Enable self-directed learning Student-student multimedia collaboration –Capture and group replay –Group/class awareness –Scale to large “physical” community Student-staff communication tools –Synchronized capture –Staff awareness tools

Outside-Classroom Techniques Share tools with in-classroom Create virtual community from students “taking” course Requires real staff Q & A databases?

Update Funding received from Intel –$200K equipment / Matching from Dean (3yrs PA-I) –50-80 ultralight laptops (WLAN, camera) –HP Capshare, Microsoft software / staff support Classes –Late spring: graduate classes –Fall 2000: CS 160 –Spring 2001: Several sections of CS 162 Grants –NSF ITR pre-proposal –NSF Engineering Curriculum proposal

NSF ITR Pre-Proposal Joseph, Landay, Canny, Katz: $3M Anytime-anywhere access to information New paradigms for collaborative EPBL –Learning support infrastructure More responsive monitoring of student / team progress by staff –Group/class awareness, Staff awareness Opportunity to explore underlying design, engineering, and fundamental principles –Information / communication tracking

NSF ITR Proposal (cont’d) Focus on in-classroom EPBL tools Requires strong evaluation –Ed post-doc Lots of open questions –Looking for feedback

NSF Engineering Curriculum Proposal Outside the classroom infrastructure –$500K (Joseph, Landay) Leveraging our abilities –How to teach an off-campus population –Increase value of UCB education Off-campus access to upper division courses Off-campus Masters Continuing education Ed post-doc?

Questions? What are the underlying problems with existing EPBL courses –In the classroom? –Outside the classroom? What are the research/technology levers? What is the right set of evaluation metrics?