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Setting up a multi-levelled course
on Blackboard
Rhyme Setshedi
Standard Curriculum Programme
Electrical Engineering
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Content
• Background
• Challenges
• Multilevel grouping
• Implementation through Blackboard
• Preliminary Feedback
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Challenges we/they all face
• Time
• Work load
• Background
• Relevance
• Resources
• Language
• Level of
complexity• ….
• Feedback
“A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. “~Thomas Carruthers
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INTRODUCTION TO END
USER COMPUTING
CMS101s, KOR1e2x,KOR112x,KOR1m2x…
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Are you teaching
your course at the
right level?
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Are you teaching
your course at the
right level?
Students
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Are you teaching
your course at the
right level?
Beginner Intermediate Advanced
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Are you teaching
your course at the
right level?
Beginner Intermediate Advanced
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Are you teaching
your course at the
right level?
Beginner Intermediate Advanced
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Used Blackboard to create
learning environments where
students mental abilities were
challenged at the correct level of
complexity and difficulty.
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Multi-Level Grouping
Beginner
• Attends all
classes and
tutorials
• More tasks and
submissions
• Assigned
tutors
Intermediate
• Attends all
classes and
tutorials
• Moderate
submissions
• Helps the
beginners in
class
Advanced
• Do not have to
attend all
classes
• Few
submissions
(project type
questions)
• Elected as
tutors
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Adaptive releasing of
assessments and tasks based
on group affiliation and
progress marks
OPTIONS: Grade, Membership, Review Status & Date
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Sample Size
Advanced8
33%
Intermediate4
17%
Beginners12
50%
“Tell me and I’ll forget, show me and I may remember, Involve me and I’ll understand”-Chinese Provebs
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Questionnaire results
Strongly
agreeAgree Neutral Disagree
Strongly
Disagree
1 The group I chose
enabled me to learn at
the relevant pace.
2 I was challenged at the
right level for the group
I chose
3 I have advanced my
computer skills to a
higher level
4I was assessed in a fair
manner irrespective of
the group I belonged to.
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Questionnaire results
Advanced Students
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
Strongly Agree
Agree Neutral disagree Strongly disagree
32
3
0 0
23
2
10
13
4
00
1
6
1
00
Assessment
Advancement
Challenge
Pace
"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. " ~Gail Godwin
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Overall Questionnaire
Intermediate
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
Strongly Agree
Agree Neutral disagree Strongly disagree
4
0 0 0 0
3
10 0 0
4
00 0 0
3
1
0 0 0
Assessment
Advancement
Challenge
Pace
"If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. " ~Tryon Edwards
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Overall Questionnaire
Beginners
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
20
Strongly Agree
Agree Neutral disagree Strongly disagree
3
8
0 0 1
8
2
20
0
4 5
3
00
4 5
3
00
Assessment
Advancement
Challenge
Pace
"A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations." ~Patricia Neal
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Overall Questionnaire
All students
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
Strongly Agree
Agree Neutral disagree Strongly disagree
10 10
3 1 1
13
6
4
0 0
9
8
7
0 0
8
12
4
0 0
Assessment
Advancement
Challenge
Pace
"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. ~Socrates
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What student requested..
• Fast internet
• Updated computer hardware and
software
• Less/no restrictions at the lab (facebook, games,..)
• Unlimited availability of PC Labs
• Increased internet access
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I wish that computer
skills can
accommodate a variety
of chapters, not just
Microsoft
What they said
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Other outputs
• Linux machines (running MS Office)
• Registration software(MySQL
Database, PHP, Visual Basic)
• Gala Evening (exhibition platform
for innovative ideas)
• Blogging, Facebook, MXIT…
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Conclusion
• A multi-level course was
successfully implemented
• Learner/problem oriented teaching
and learning
• Subject integration and
collaboration with others
• Technology/Blackboard’s adaptive
release feature