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Copyright © 2014 - Curt Hill
Marshalling Technology for Education
Curt HillComputer Systems and Software Engineering
Valley City State [email protected]
Introduction• There has been considerable
interest in the notion of a flipped or inverted classroom– Requires student to be responsible for
their own learning outside of class– Class time is used for what is not
understood in this way
• Most often exercised in large lecture classes
• This describes an attempt to flip an unlikely class
• Institutional emphasisCopyright © 2014 - Curt Hill
Copyright © 2014 - Curt Hill
The Class• CSCI 160 – Intro to Structured
Programming I• Taught 8:00 MWF using IVN
– 8 students at VCSU – have laptops– 4 students at WSC – in computer lab
• Online resource: VCSU MEP– The textbook substitute and giver of
assignments
• Online resource: VCSU Web Tools– Giver of daily quiz
Technology • Some pieces of technology are
essential– Others get in the way
• Technology Used– Interactive Video Network is both, but
is a necessary evil– VCSU-MEP is used instead of textbook– DevC++ IDE is free software– The VCSU Web Tools – Tegrity is a recording tool
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Class Cycle• Between classes complete VCSU MEP
reading• Take quiz, 5-15 minutes• Discuss quiz questions, 5-25 minutes
– Lengthy discussion of harder problems
• Demonstration or presentation – all remaining time, except next bullet– Often skipped in favor of previous
• Announce what needs to be done prior to next class – 5 minutes
• All but the first item is recorded via Tegrity – Especially helpful for remote sites
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Course History• Traditional face to face in last
millennia• VCSU MEP becomes standard early
2000’s– 2010 was last of these– C++Builder was IDE
• 2011 became IVN class– No text other than VCSU MEP– C++Builder and Visual Studio
• Flipped in 2013 – DevC++
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VCSU Web Tools
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• Online system– Many features, but the quiz is only
one used
• Easy to make multiple choice or survey questions
• Questions are released at a specified time and stay open for a limited time
• Each student must have a login• Results may be monitored in real
time
VCSU-MEP
• Online learning resource discussed in several papers
• Used with a login on a Java enabled browser
• Numerous interactive objects besides normal text content
• Records student progress• Assigns projects when milestones
have been accomplished
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Strengths• The students know that there is an
online quiz to start class• The quiz problems that are well
done are ignored• The problems can be dealt with
immediately• This is a teachable moment
– It is all about extemporaneous teaching of exactly what is needed
– If students asked questions this would not be as necessary
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Work
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• This was much more labor intensive than previous editions
• All the PowerPoints existed from previous classes– Delivering them is no-brainer
• Generating quiz questions and more demonstrations did turn out to be real work
• Almost like a first offering of a class
Commentary
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• The advent of IVN for this class killed numerous in-class exercises in groups
• VCSU Web Tools allowed something similar to be re-introduced
• The level of in-class interaction is not yet to where it should be
Evolution of an Instructor
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2012 2013Slides before test 1 384 201
Slides before test 2 337 159
Slides before test 3 343 21
MC quiz questions(work alone)
0 79
MC quiz questions(work together)
0 24
Test PerformancePercentage right for Multiple Choice Questions
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Test 1 Test 2 Test 3
2013 62.07% 44.83% 60.00%2012 38.46% 16.67% 30.00%2011 54.84% 35.00% 58.80%2010 65.52% 56.21% 65.56%
Performance Commentary
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• The Blue Ribbon class was 2010– Of the seven who started, six finished,
four have IT jobs today
• The class of 2013 is the second best of the classes and usually finishes close to that of 2010– Does this class have the raw talent?
• This is a long way from educational research standards but suggests that this may be a promising approach
Nearly Last Comments
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• Should only be used for classes with which the instructor is very comfortable
• Never surveyed the students on their preferences– Could not continue in the follow up
class– One student asked why we did not
continue
• Will do this again