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Not Just a Number
Student Centered Approach for Large Courses
Aisha Jackson
Amanda McAndrew
Jacie Moriyama
Viktoriya Oliynyk
Game Plan
• Explore challenges of teaching large courses
• Consider some ways to help students feel empowered and engaged in a large class
• Introduce some instructional approaches and technologies to address challenges
What are the biggest challenges of teaching large
courses?
http://bit.ly/largecourses
Building a Learning Community
Challenge
• Moving beyond the one to many distribution of content
Strategies
• Engage students by letting them contribute to the content
• Create opportunities for students to collaborate
Social Bookmarking
• Students can feel connected and take ownership of content• Easy to create groups• "Like" features• Commenting features
• Example:• Join our group
http://groups.diigo.com/group/lg_course_project
Class Wiki
• Class notes
• Review of materials
• Content outlines
Example: http://briancroxall.pbworks.com/w/page/8178875/Wiki-Class-Notes
Discussions
http://www.piazza.com • Students and Instructors
– Can respond– Ask follow-up questions– Rate as good question and as good answer– Tag questions and answers
Old Tools, New Ideas
• Social Bookmarking – www.diigo.com– www.delicious.com
• Social Networks- www.facebook.com- Google +
• Wikis– www.pbwiki.com– www.wikispaces.com– Google Docs
Needs attention
Groups - In class
– Assign groups for in class activities
• Think pair share
• Small group discussions/case studies
• Groups post responses or outcomes to twitter, google moderator, LMS tools
Group Projects
• Preparation
• Outline equal roles
• Collaborative resources
• If groups are presenting to the class, give the rest of the class something to do.- Peer review, summaries, develop exam questions
Tools for Group Facilitation
• Groups tool in LMS- Discussions
• Groups can summarize the weeks discussion
- Locker
• GRumbler- http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/msparrow/
GRumbler--main.html
Assessments
Challenge
• Collecting and processing data is time-consuming
• Delay between learning activity and feedback
Strategies
• Simplify data collection processes
• Provide real-time feedback to students
Student Response Systems
• Collect student responses within seconds• Display results immediately• Collect assessment data to analyze at
any point during the semester • Administer in-class quizzes
Assessment Tools
• Quizzes and Self-Assessments
• Rubrics• Text matching tools• Feedback feature (audio
feedback!)• Text matching
http://turnitin.com
Audio Feedback
• Gradeswww.classmategrading.com
• Quizzes
www.proprofs.com
www.equizzer.com
• Rubrics http://rubistar.4teachers.org
Alternatives
Directing Communication
• Use the Grade book feature• Calendar• Announcements • Checklist tool for creating directions
MGMT with Discussion Tools
• Create discussion forums in the LMS
• General class questions– Due dates– Requirements
• Water cooler– Off topic discussions
Links
Viktoriya
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxPVyieptwA • http
://www.google.com/moderator/#15/e=a6d55&t=a6d55.40&f=a6d55.4f410c• http://twitter.com• http://twitterfall.com/
Amanda• http://groups.diigo.com/group/lg_course_project • http://briancroxall.pbworks.com/w/page/8178875/Wiki-Class-Notes • http://www.piazza.com • http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/msparrow/GRumbler--main.html