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Not Just a Number Student Centered Approach for Large Courses Aisha Jackson Amanda McAndrew Jacie Moriyama Viktoriya Oliynyk

Not Just a Number: Student Centered Approach for Large Courses

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Not Just a Number

Student Centered Approach for Large Courses

Aisha Jackson

Amanda McAndrew

Jacie Moriyama

Viktoriya Oliynyk

Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxPVyieptwA

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

Student Participation

Moderating Discussionshttp://bit.ly/SLOAN-C

#blend12

Discussion Forums

Student Response Systems

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

Classroom Management

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

Recording Lectures

Activity

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