HP Mobile Technologies at MSU

1. 1. ? 15/2 2. ? 3. ? 1. ? 17/3 2. ? 3. ? Storage server for accessing student records anywhere and anytime Teacher’s lecture outline composed from DOC,TEX,PPT,XPS,XAML Lecture parts are broadcasted to students Students’ individual records with handwriting and markups For some questions statistics are available immediately Tests are distributed among students, answers are stored in Digital Workbook for later review 1. ? 2. ? 3. ? Teacher prepare questions and tests HP Mobile Technologies at MSU Moscow State University Department of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics Moscow, Russia Sergey Berezin, Boris Berezin, Anatoly Gulyaev http://microsoft.cs.msu.su/hptt PROJECT ABSTRACT: We are using HP mobile technology to build Digital Workbook TabletPC application and introduce it to educational process. We hope than it will bring new experience both for teachers and students when reading lectures on subjects with rich multimedia content such Computer Graphics and when conducting practical lessons and tests on mathematical subjects such as Differential Equations. • Impact on Student Learning • Courses on Computer Graphics and Differential Equations are both read to three hundred of students. Part of these students will receive Tablet PCs with our application on lectures and practical lessons. • Digital Workbook application will be made freely available for students with their own Tablet PCs. These will extend representative group. • We plan to collect and evaluate two metrics: • Formal: Comparison of marks • Informal: Opinions of students (survey) • Technology Implementation • Our Digital Workbook application turns Tablet PC into learning tool consolidating all of the student’s materials including: • Lectures • Practical lessons & tests • Document library with markups • Digital Workbook application is based on Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 and fully utilizes power of Windows Presentation Foundation with Tablet PC support, Windows Communication Foundation and new XPS document format. Impact on Teaching Our goal is to unite strong sides of classical “blackboard and paper” approach with modern “presentation and computer”. In field of Computer Graphics we’ll introduce new kind of lectures where main statements, complex formulas and rich and, possible, interactive media is prepared by teacher and translated to students, who embed teacher’s content into lectures written on Tablet PCs. On practical lessons on Differential Equations we replace paper with Tablet PCs. That will enhance set of tools available to students and will help to better keep track of student’s work. We plan to apply our approach to other subjects such as Scientific Visualization and Numerical Methods. Keywords: Electronic documents, digital inks, markup, Computer Graphics, Differential Equations Results are gathered on server for later semiautomatic checking by teacher