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Engagement with Gizmos

Engagement with Gizmos. Using Webinar Sessions, eNotebooks and Lecture Response Systems, to facilitate engagement. Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. Gareth Denyer, School Molecular Bioscience. WHAT’S GOOD ABOUT LECTURES?. Which reason SURPRISES you the most?

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Engagement with Gizmos

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  1. Engagement with Gizmos Using Webinar Sessions, eNotebooks and Lecture Response Systems, to facilitate engagement. Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Gareth Denyer, School Molecular Bioscience

  2. WHAT’S GOOD ABOUT LECTURES? • Which reason SURPRISES you the most? • Discipline to engage with the material • Feeling of connection with lecturer/course • Social contact with peers and Unilife • Rapid disengagement if did not attend • Ability to ask questions

  3. ARE LECTURE QUESTIONS EFFECTIVE?

  4. ARE LECTURE QUESTIONS EFFECTIVE? In theory a great barometer of class understanding…. But in a class of 300?????

  5. A SAFE PLACE FOR QUESTIONS? • Anonymous • In their own home • At a time that feels right • Recorded • Easy to set up • No software installation needed • University Supported • No need to appear on video!

  6. TYPICAL SESSION

  7. TYPICAL SESSION

  8. TYPICAL SESSION

  9. TYPICAL SESSION

  10. DEPLOYMENT Originally run during Stu Vac and before exams About 30 turned up regularly – but recorded Student opinion… exceptionally positive… EXPLANATIONS Anonymity a key factor – yet felt PERSONAL Since then run in the evenings about once per week Especially good for catch up material

  11. WHAT DO THESE EXAM RESULTS MEAN? UoS Mark HD D C P regular attendee AAM

  12. ENGAGEMENT IN PRACTICAL CLASSES • Traditionally • Lab Bench Experiments • Mainly follow-the-recipe • Little opportunity for extension experiments or revision of approach

  13. ELEMENTS OF SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY ELEMENTS OF ENGAGEMENT • In addition to Theory/Background & Technical Skills • Observation • Measurement • Data Analysis • Presentation • Questioning • Experimental Design • Discussion (Feedback Cycle) • Revision of Approach • Opportunity to Repeat • Curation of Data

  14. PRE-ENGAGEMENT PROBLEMS • Few actually do the pre-work • Worse still: some do, some don’t! • Rely on tutor tutorial

  15. PRE-PRAC TUTE – ENGAGING??

  16. ELECTRONIC LAB NOTEBOOKS ePortfolio – Pebblepad Lab Archives

  17. E-NOTEBOOK FACILITATES ENGAGEMENT Pre-work actually done!!! More time to do real lab work! Re-structured class to allow repetition and redesign of experiments

  18. STUDENT-TUTOR ENGAGEMENT Little outside class Tutors are post-grads working in real research labs! No development of the relationship

  19. THE COST OF ENGAGEMENT • 24/7 communication • Much more work for the tutors • Harder to answer random Qs than deliver well-rehearsed “tute” • No longer the Sage on the Stage • Loss of status??

  20. CAN THIS APPLY TO LECTURES? Increased preparedness Quality questions and tailored responses eLN Adobe Connect Classroom Engagement systems Leverage off student devices Get the mood of the class in real time

  21. A SHAKY START…. But then Danny Liu shows Socrative at Science Teaching Tips Free…. Easy…. (and I got my classes re-timetabled ) BCHM2072 started sprinkling questions here and there……

  22. GOING THE FULL FLIP? Chemistry reported great success on flipping…. ………students master basic content before they come to class, and work with their new knowledge in class. This is the reverse of the lecture model, where the professor lectures on basic material, and then students struggle with homework on their own……. Surely can’t try this with first years!!!?? Totally unrealistic to imagine that they really will listen to a one hour lecture on-line first… ?

  23. FLIP STRATEGY…COMPETING TENSIONS Make them realise I’m not bluffing Don’t lose the students that didn’t pre-engage

  24. TURNING EACH SLIDE INTO QUESTIONS Original Lecture Slide 26

  25. A FRESH APPROACH Original Lecture Slide 55

  26. THE STUDENT VOICE Thanks to Jill Johnston, Dale Hancock, Danny Liu and Vanessa Gysbers [TRUST your colleagues to analyse your feedback…] Very polarised emotions – Loved it or hated it Extra workload – what if everyone did it!? Focus on MCQ and exams rather than engagement per se? No preparation – not worth coming to lecture But the exam also contains objective measures….

  27. GIZMO ENABLED ENGAGEMENTS Laboratory Class Tutorials eNotebooks Adobe Connect Lectures Response Systems

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