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Vinayak Naik, Pushpendra Singh, Amarjeet Singh IIIT-Delhi February 12, 2011

Vinayak Naik, Pushpendra Singh, Amarjeet Singh IIIT-Delhi February 12, 2011. Role of ICT Enabled Teaching Practices for Improved Learning. What is ICT Enabled Teaching ?. How do we define ICT enabled teaching?. What different modules together constitute effective teaching?.

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Vinayak Naik, Pushpendra Singh, Amarjeet Singh IIIT-Delhi February 12, 2011

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  1. Vinayak Naik, Pushpendra Singh, Amarjeet Singh IIIT-Delhi February 12, 2011 Role of ICT Enabled Teaching Practices for Improved Learning

  2. What is ICT Enabled Teaching? • How do we define ICT enabled teaching? • What different modules together constitute effective teaching? We will talk about how we used technologies to aid in some of these modules!

  3. Why ICT Enabled Technologies? • Satisfy so called “digital natives” or “net generation” • Due to their upbringing and experiences with technology, today’s students have particular learning preferences or styles that differ from earlier generations • Use the tools to make the dissemination and learning more interesting and engaging • Most importantly, make our life easier! :)

  4. How ICT Enabled Technologies? • Share some of our experiences with use of following technologies • Audio recording of lectures • Class blogs • Wiki for project updates • Google code for assignment submission • Detecting plagiarism • SMS Channel for feedback and announcements • Animations to aid visualization • Course website/Course management system • Coordination using google docs • Used across different classes - Systems Management (1st Semester, class size - 100); Computer Networks (4th Semester, class size - 60), Mobile Computing (5th Semester, class size - 40), Embedded Systems (6th Semester, class size - 20)

  5. Audio Recordings • Use a simple pocket voice recorder • Very positive feedback from students since they can go back and listen • I was apprehensive in the beginning - who wants to listen to me after the forced lecture is over! :) • A good feedback for me to see how I managed today’s class • Allows me to quantify the improvement over time

  6. Class Blogs • Free to host - blogger, wordpress, … • Idea: provide a forum for discussion amongst students to promote peer-to-peer learning • Initial effort but very low maintenance afterwards • Students may copy paste, use slangs, grammatical errors • Create a draft blog as a model for students to follow • Create a policy around copy paste • Motivating students to participate • Initially may come from having some weight in overall evaluation • Once the utility is established, it establishes a feedback • A resource that can grow with each year • I also made them write about personal lab experiences • Get them attracted towards the habit of writing

  7. Wiki for Project Updates • Easy to install on any server • Mandated students to create a wiki page for their project • Update history is maintained by the tool: Easy to track update time • Initial effort in getting it started, low maintenance afterwards • Good exposure to students on how to create a wiki page • Easy coordination amongst students in the same group

  8. Google Code Repository • Very easy to setup online code repository • Easy to track progress as the student works on the code • Not possible to setup individual permissions - Each student will have access to other students’ code • In my case, I do not mind them copy as long as they can explain the code • In-built wiki - project code can be committed and a wiki page can be maintained • No maintenance

  9. Tools meant for documents are not accurate for detecting plagiarism in code • Moss is a good online tool but it is has its disadvantages • In addition to Moss, we are using SVN log files to deter and detect plagiarism • Student is supposed to create a SVN repository and commit code in it • Code that is copied instantaneously can be detected • SVN logs can be manipulated but it is a non-trivial effort • There are false positives and false negatives

  10. SMS Channel • Alternate communication channel with the class • Privacy issues of collecting individual phone numbers • Technology not stable for adding large number of subscribers • Not very effective for announcements • Setup a SMS server (open source) and connected a GSM modem • Students could send an encoded SMS to give feedback on each lecture - script to compile the messages to create a summary and send over email automatically • Need to be a bit technology savvy to setup the complete solution • Got regular feedback in the beginning from a few students but it died down eventually - I have to be blamed! • Working on setting up IVR for announcements and feedback this semester

  11. Animations to aid visualization • Java applets to show underlying concepts • Already available resource • Feedback suggests that it is very useful in understanding the concept • Students demand more of them • Assignment to develop similar applets :) • Attention level suddenly increases close to 100% • Planning to have similar resources for other courses

  12. Course website/Course management system • Course Management Systems • Moodle: open-source, free. • Set up at University/Department level • Allows • Easy distribution of course resources • Submitting course assignments • Deadlines are fixed – late submissions can be disabled • Course Website • Can be set up by an individual • Requires minimal knowledge of computers e.g. Google pages

  13. Given the scale, scheduling is getting tougher • Current version of doodle.com schedules one meeting for multiple participants, we need multiple meetings for multiple participants • Use Google spreadsheet to reduce load • Instructor decides all possible timeslots • Students on first-come-first-serve basis pick slots (could be done using a paper on a notice board as well but online is more convenient) • No back-n-forth sending of emails • As it follows first-come-first-serve policy from students’ point of view there is no consideration for students’ constraints, but then scheduling is a hard problem

  14. Concluding Remarks • A word of caution: Lots of new technologies around • Can be overwhelming for the instructor • Can be overwhelming for the students • A few new technologies can be an easy way to impress students that you are up to date with what is happening around :) • Those which are easy to setup and maintain are worth trying to test whether they work for you • Others can be given as a summer internship project to be setup by the students themselves and used in teaching a course in Fall semester

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