tom impelluso,2008 fellow, 1st iteration course design
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Engineering Faculty member, Tom Impelluso talks about his 1st iteration.YouTube Video too.TRANSCRIPT
Thomas J. ImpellusoMechanical Engineering
ME203: Computer Programming Applications
COURSE RE-RE-RE-DESIGN
ME203Status as of Fall, 2006:
Programming for Mechanical Engineers:loops, logic, arrays, files, functions
The class had been: “programming without purpose.” (Specific Mechanics Algorithms were not presented.)
ME203Status as of Fall, 2006:
Class met in a lab and enrollment was limited by the thirty workstations.
Three instructors were needed each semester.
Changes deployed as of Fall ’08 – mid-way
through re-design
• Cognitive Load to introduce mechanics
• Use of Blackboard for organization
• Use of Wimba for delivery
Especially, the Desktop Sharing.Special attention
Engineering School Server
Student at home Instructor at home
Desktop Sharing
Wimba
Unlimited Students
Enrollment
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
F '06 S '07 (*) F '07 S '08 F '08 S '09
1. No need to hire three instructors.
2. No need to support 30 workstations
Final Exam Grade Comparison
Type of Student Fall 2006 Fall 2008
All students 53.25 76.28
Hispanic students 61.25 82.33
Female students 70.00 88.25
Failing to Finish
Type of Student Fall 2006 Fall 2008
All students 25.9% 13%
Hispanic students 50% 16%
Female students 50% 0%
Instructor Review
Fall, 2006 2.48 3.14
Fall, 2008 3.396 4.40
Spill over: Graduate classes average now about 4.5 to 5.0
Theories
• No ‘herd’ mentality.
• Review in privacy of home.
• Cognitive Load Theory
• Scaffolding
• Minerva’s Machine
• Articulation
• Stacking Fear
That completes the design.
BUT WE WANT MORE
Re-design: 1/3
Captivating the entire class
Purpose: enables instructor to focus attention on the students in need.
(and now students are volunteering to turn the captivates into CD’s for ‘on-demand-learning)
Re-re-design: 2/3
Adaptive Releas: In order to download the first five home-works, the students must first pass a short quiz about the syllabus.
Purpose: enables student motivation
Re-re-re-design: 3/3
Peer Review: Will it replace the need for graders?
Purpose: enables learning communities.
Personal Experience
Brace yourself and do half.
Prepare time to do the second half while teaching the first half because you see patterns emerge.
I think unbalanced focus on research results in course mis-articulation.
Redesign
ME310: Machines and Mechanisms
Articulation Matters
ME499: Simulation Science
Was ME205; will become SDSU-grid
IEE: Informal Engineering Education
DaVinci/SDSU Island (With S.A.)
Beam bending Angular Velocity
Kinematics
Truss AnalysisCentripetal Clutch
AerodynamicsDynamics: Runge-Kutta
Newton-Raphson
Bessel Functions
Sincere and warm thank you to Suzanne Aurilio,
and to Jon Rizzo, too.