Educational Technology

October 10, 2015

Interactive learning environment aims to improve student success

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:30 am

by Sabrina Salvatore, the Orion

The course requires students to watch videos and lectures online prior to class, Wasinger said. During class, students are divided into groups where they do different activities to recycle the material. The online videos include step-by-step visual demonstrations of course material, as well as audio explaining the content which is accessed via Blackboard Learn. This semester is the first this teaching technique is being implemented and will continue for at least four semesters, Wasinger said. The chemistry department hopes that after this trial run there will be proof that this interactive learning approach helps improve students’ grades. If the results are positive, then it will be made a permanent part of this course and possibly implemented in other departments. “As a way to hold the students accountable for actually watching the online lectures outside of class, there are random quizzes attached to the end of a video that count for credit toward their grade in the course,” he said.

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