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tech.aided.teachingResearch and Learning Improvement Project Summary of AccomplishmentsRamn V. Len, Ph.D.University of Tennesseeteach.aided.teaching@gmail.comWhat Has Been AccomplishedDevelopment of a Range of Tools for Lecturing and Conducting Classes so That Faculty Can Use All Their Teaching TalentsDevelopment of Technology to Automate Routine Tasks to Free Facultys Time for Activities that Directly Contribute to Student LearningProviding Faculty with Tools for Easily Creating, Maintaining, and Distributing to Students Custom Textbooks Made Out of Free Web Sources; Thus, Saving Students Money on TextbooksProviding Faculty with Tools for Adding Online Students to Traditional On-Campus Classes that Synergistically Exploit the Increased Student Diversity (e.g. Experienced Working Professionals vs. Traditional Students with the Content of Courses Fresh in Their Minds) to Create Superior Learning Experiences for Both Types of StudentsProviding Faculty with a Methodology for Approaching Teaching as a Research EnterpriseEnabling Faculty to Treat Teaching and Learning as Processes That Can Be Improved Using the Process Quality Improvement Methods and Tools Developed by W. Edwards Deming

What Has Been Accomplished Development of a Range of Tools for Lecturing and Conducting Classes so That Faculty Can Use All Their Teaching TalentsAdvanced annotation capabilities for use during lectures as either stand-alone or on top of PowerPoint slidesMore thorough answers to student questions More agile teaching where students partially determine what is covered in each lecture and the course as a wholeMultimedia capabilitiesReal-time improvement of teaching material, such as, by being able to add comments, pictures, and screen shots of software output

What Has Been AccomplishedDevelopment of Technology to Automate Routine Tasks to Free Facultys Time for Activities that Directly Contribute to Student LearningMaking lecture materialboth before and after the facultys class annotationsavailable to students on a website that automatically updates in real-time even as one lecturesNo worries about students having the latest version of the class notesNo need to upload anything to Blackboard!Students always have access to the most-recent version of facultys teaching material with possible after-lecture corrections and improvementsFaculty can clean and improve their class notes after each lecture since student have immediate access to these improvements via the self-updating website

What Has Been AccomplishedProviding Faculty with Tools for Easily Creating, Maintaining, and Distributing to Students Custom Textbooks Made Out of Free Web SourcesReduce or entirely eliminate the need for students to buy textbooks and other pricy learning materialsSuperior to traditional paper textbooks becauseThey can contain interactive elements such as sound, video, and animations (See the next two slides)They can have a large number of extra material and links that students can use if they want to learn extra material

Online Custom Textbook: Supported by YouTube Channel

Click on the picture to playOnline Custom Textbook: Interactivity to Help Students Learn

Click on the picture to be able to interact with the animation.What Has Been AccomplishedProviding Faculty with Tools for Adding Online Students to Traditional On-Campus ClassesThat synergistically exploit the increased student diversity (e.g. experienced working professionals vs. traditional students with the content of courses fresh in their minds) to create superior learning experiences for both types of studentsThat increase educational opportunities for non-traditional studentsWho cannot come to campus Who would have a greater selections of coursesTraditional students also benefit, especially in the summer, because they can take courses wherever they happen to beAlmost no marginal cost for additional online studentsIncreased university revenue by adding tuition-paying students at no extra costSome of this extra revenue couldand shouldbe passed to students in the form of smaller tuition increasesThe author designed and had an engineer built a sound system to support discussion among face-to-face and online students and for them to hear each others questions and comments

What Has Been AccomplishedProviding Instructors with a Methodology for Approaching Teaching as a Research EnterpriseApplication of the scientific method to teaching and learningGenerating (aggressive: 10% failure rate) hypotheses about what could be effective in student learningSuggested by the the latest research on how students learn (Cognitive Science of Learning) Suggested by what has proven to work in class as established by supporting dataInfluenced by what the latest technology has made possibleEmpirically testing these hypothesesRigorous data collection after every lecture to refine these hypotheses, discard them if ineffective, and generate new hypotheses to test

What Has Been Accomplished Measuring of Teaching and Learning EffectivenessStudent satisfaction survey after every lectureAnonymous except for knowing who answered them or not. (5% of course graded based on survey response)Survey questionsWhat was the clearest to you in the last lecture?What needs more explanation?What grade would you give the last lecture?Why did you give this grade?How could I have improved the class?How was the sound quality in this last lectureHigh quality microphone usedLectures incorporate this feedback to improve lecture to lectureThey start by going over what students said needed more explanationClasses and lectures are continuously being tailored to the unique personality of each individual classWhat Has Been Accomplished

Development of Tools for Faculty to Treat Teaching and Learning as Processes That Can Be Improved Using the Process Quality Improvement Methods and Tools Developed by W. Edwards DemingWhat Has Been AccomplishedUse of Other Teaching ToolsCollaborative student learningUsing online breakout roomsUsing Top Hat Monocle student response systemJudicious used of flipped-classroom ideasMore accurately described as outside-class enrichments to generated class discussion

Instructor Access Anywhere Any Time*Access viaEmailCell phone Texting VoiceSkypeGoogle+Blackboard CollaborateOffice hours in the facultys officeFace to faceOnline via SkypeStudent are very considerateRequires limited faculty time Stat 567: Grade for Last Lecture*

*Fall 2012Stat 201: Grade for Last Lecture**Fall 2012

Stat 560* Anonymous Survey

*Su 2011Future PlansCreating a workshop on the effective use of technology in teachingCopyrighted by the authorVersion available to UT faculty if an adequate development grant is securedDevelopment courses with breakthrough content such as introduction to statistics from a business analytics viewpoint taking advantage of the methods described above to increase learning effectivenessPublishing of research and accomplishments

Objectives for a WorkshopProvide a Range of New Tools for Lecturing and Conducting Classes so That Faculty Can Use all Their Teaching TalentsShow How to Automate Routine Tasks to Free Facultys Time for Activities that Directly Contribute to Student LearningProvide Faculty with Tools for Easily Creating, Maintaining, and Distributing to Students Custom Textbooks Made Out of Free Web Sources; thus, Saving Students Money on TextbooksProvide Faculty with Tools for Adding Online Students to Traditional On-Campus Classes that Synergistically Exploit the Increased Student Diversity (e.g. Experienced Working Professionals vs. Traditional Students with the Content of Courses Fresh in their minds) to Create Superior Learning Experiences for Both Types of StudentsProvide Faculty with a Methodology for Approaching Teaching as a Research EnterpriseProvide Faculty with Statistical and Other Tools for Treating Teaching as a Process That Can Be Improved Using the Quality Improvement Tools Developed by W. Edwards DemingSummary of AccomplishmentsDevelopment of a Range of Tools for Lecturing and Conducting Classes so That Faculty Can Use All Their Teaching TalentsDevelopment of Technology to Automate Routine Tasks to Free Facultys Time for Activities that Directly Contribute to Student LearningProviding Faculty with Tools for Easily Creating, Maintaining, and Distributing to Students Custom Textbooks Made Out of Free Web Sources; Thus, Saving Students Money on TextbooksProviding Faculty with Tools for Adding Online Students to Traditional On-Campus Classes that Synergistically Exploit the Increased Student Diversity (e.g. Experienced Working Professionals vs. Traditional Students with the Content of Courses Fresh in Their Minds) to Create Superior Learning Experiences for Both Types of StudentsProviding Faculty with a Methodology for Approaching Teaching as a Research EnterpriseEnabling Faculty to Treat Teaching and Learning as Processes That Can Be Improved Using the Process Quality Improvement Methods and Tools Developed by W. Edwards Deming