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Transforming the classroom with active learning technology…to connect minds and creating 

the futureColin Montpetit

Transforming the classroom with active learning

technology….to connect minds and creating the future

Colin Montpetit, Assistant Professor

Department of Biology, University of Ottawa

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2015 TECHTEACH CONFERENCE - UIC

Modules (self-paced)• Targeted readings

• Interactive act./Videos

• Reflective act.

• Module quiz OnlineBlackBoard LMSInitial exposure

Summative• Two-Stage Collaborative Exams

(2 midterms + 1 final)

Assessments

Labs• Experiments

• Worksheets, reports

• Quizzes

F2F-Labs

Defined Learning Outcomes, 5E Learning Cycle

Class• Clicker case studies

• Peer-Instruction

• Just-in-Time Teaching

F2F-class

Echo360-ALP

65% 20%

15%

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Echo360- Active Learning Platform

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2015 TECHTEACH CONFERENCE - UIC

– Multiple choice questions

– Short Answer

– Ordered list

– Image quiz

– Numerical response

– Multimedia

Question everything!

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Student Engagement

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Setting up instruction• Assess prior knowledge

• Provoke thinking

• Stimulate discussion

• Predict- and show-

• Induce cognitive conflict

Develop Knowledge• Tackle misconceptions

• Exercise skills

• Conceptual understanding

Assess Learning• Exit poll

• Probe limits of understanding

• Demonstrate success

• Review

Communication• Q and As

• Community

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2015 TECHTEACH CONFERENCE - UIC

Peer Instruction

http://dbctle.erau.edu/news/gateway/

Crouch, C. H. & Mazur, E. (2001). Peer Instruction: Ten years of experience and results. American Association of Physics Teachers, 69(9).

Success

Curiosity

Originality

Relationships

Feedback

Make it about the game!

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Peek inside their minds

Attendance~90%

Participation rate ~99%

Presentation views100% Ss viewed 1

~90% Ss /LECAvg – 6 views/LEC

Class: 64,000 total views106 views /Ss

Word countAvg – 65% / LEC

91% have taken notesAvg – 2100 words/Ss

Avg – 200 words/Ss/LECClass: 1,703,000 total words

Video viewsAvg – 14 views /SsClass: 15232 total

views

Length of video viewed – 60%

3 Sections, ~225 Students eachBlended learning format

OBSERVATIONS

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Distribution of Learning Gains

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Summary - Learning Outcomes(2011 versus 2012-2016)

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Student performance

on exams

Learning gains pre/post assessments(Smith et al., 2008)

Final grades

7-10%

~10%

50-90%

2012-2016 – eInstruction, LectureTools and Echo360-ALP enabled classrooms

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Three-legged community

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Scientific Teaching

Teaching and learning is approached with the same rigour as science itself

These elements underlie educational and pedagogical decisions in the classroom

Involves building a community of teachers.

Active Learning Actively engage students in learning

Assessment Measure student progress towards learning goals

Diversity Differences that make students, cohorts, teaching unique

Handelsman et al., Science 304: 521-522