Designed to support interactive teaching and learning in the higher education classroom. Our tools allow teachers and students to continuously discover the methods and resources that work towards optimal results.
Designed to support interactive teaching and learning in the higher education classroom. Our tools allow teachers and students to continuously discover the methods and resources that work towards optimal results.
Agility In Pedagogy: in the classroom an instructor can use formative assessment, students’ feedback and forum discussions to assess learning and issues, and then appropriately cater optimal instructional activities to the learning objectives and observed needs of the students.
Discovery Teaching has user accounts and semester courses just as in Moodle, Latte or Blackboard. The application layout is roughly: User > Courses enrolled in > Class Meetings > Activities > Interactive Tools.
Allows students to monitor, manage and report in real-time their affective and cognitive states in the classroom. The instructor’s Feedback view shows a pie-chart and time-line plots of the real-time aggregate feedback data.
A supervised back-channel discussion forum where students can post questions and other topics and have them answered by other students, TAs and the instructor. Especially great for large, interactive, and international/diverse classes.
A clicker functionality for formative assessment activities in the classroom - can also be used for summative assessments such as homework, quizzes and exams.
A clicker tool for group-based collaborative/cooperative (Think/Pair/Share) formative assessment.
Stats pages at the course, class-meeting and activity levels - providing aggregate data for students’ participation, detailed attendance and performance.
Students can take personal notes during activities. Notes are aggregated and manageable at the Class Meeting and Course levels.
An add-on to the Questions tool. Allows students to review the correctness and leave comments to peers' answers in a way that engages students, trains better answers, and crowd-sources grading data for the teacher.
A clicker functionality for formative assessment activities in the classroom - can also be used for summative assessment in homework, quizzes and exams.
Discovery Teaching was developed as part of the doctoral dissertation titled Computer-Supported Agile Teaching (CSAT).
In the four years of this doctoral work, we designed and developed the Discovery Teaching web-based application to support the CSAT methodology. This process involved continuous engagement with teachers and students, inside and outside of the classroom, as we refined our pedagogy ideas and the corresponding Discovery Teaching features. Through the use of Discovery Teaching and various experimental studies we evaluated the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed CSAT methodology.
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