Instructor authoring tool : a step towards promoting dynamic lecture-style classrooms
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Chen, Jessie I
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Kimberle Koile and David Cavallo.
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The Instructor Authoring Tool of the Classroom Learning Partner project provides an efficient tool for university professors and other teachers of lecture-style classrooms to construct lecture slides that can easily accommodate effective in-class exercises. In designing such an authoring tool, five criterions were taken into consideration: An enhanced ability to support instructors' use of in-class exercises by facilitating the slide-generation process, the use of Microsoft PowerPoint as a basic tool, enabling real-time feedback of student performance on exercises, the leveraging of past student mistakes and misunderstood concepts in enhancing teaching, and the support of an automatic tutoring system to be implemented at a later time. These criterions were successfully met by the resulting instructor authoring tool, though improvements towards facilitating the slide-generation process and support for real-time feedback of student performance have yet to be tested in a formal academic setting.
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Thesis (M. Eng. and S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 59-64).
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2006Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer SciencePublisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.