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Improving Student Engagement With Educational Material

Improving Student Engagement With Educational Material. Project Proposal. Deon Takpuie Reitumetse Chaka. Aim. Increase student academic interactions Gamification is the chosen technique Applied to the Vula forums and wiki tools. Problem Statement.

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Improving Student Engagement With Educational Material

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  1. Improving Student Engagement With Educational Material Project Proposal Deon Takpuie Reitumetse Chaka

  2. Aim • Increase student academic interactions • Gamification is the chosen technique • Applied to the Vula forums and wiki tools

  3. Problem Statement • Good pass rates are key to University reputation • It is desirable to achieve this cost-effectively • Vula tools are underutilized (Donovan 2012)

  4. Background Improving user interaction • Human computer interaction heuristics • University of Ulster uses gamification. • Mobile device multimedia input and display optimisation. Eg: Micro-Blog (Gaonkar et al. 2008)

  5. Research Questions • How much quicker can forum access become via a suitably designed mobile interface? • Is the gamified forum more usable and appealing the original tools? • Do a gamified tools add value to the students learning experience as perceived by them?

  6. Solution Approach • Mobile • Optimising for Ubiquitous use: Improve ability to interact with the tools anywhere. • Optimising Mobile interface: Applying interface design to improve content delivery on tools. • Gamification • Improving Participation: Applying a goal based layer into the use of Sakai tools. • Rewards System: Assigning participants a rewards and experience levels.

  7. Forum Background Forums Background • Improved pass rates at Ulster University • Farmville has 40 million users

  8. Wiki Background Research shows that voluntary participation has a positive influence on learnability (Greitzer et al. 2007)

  9. Division Of Work Back End • Models • Controllers Front End (Wiki & Forums) • Views Plugins • Artificial Intelligence External • Sakai (Vula) Interface

  10. Solution Phase1 • Paper prototype - Participatory Design • Back End Work Phase2 • Implement and test optimized forum tool Phase3 • Wiki gamification and add Artificial Intelligence

  11. Evaluation Plan • Revolutionary testing for paper prototype • Speed of performing popular tasks. • Post user interviews to determine usability

  12. Key Success Factors • Navigation speed to access information • Usability/Ease of use of tool • Perceived value of tool to student

  13. Risk Identification

  14. Deliverables • Web Presence • Poster presentation • Project Report • Project Application Implementation

  15. Timeline

  16. Conclusion • Possible to improve student engagement using existing tools • Possible to improve usability and speed of Vula tools

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