Promoting Active Learning through Just-in-time-teaching and Peer Interaction

Project Title

Promoting Active Learning through Just-in-time-teaching and Peer Interaction

Project Leader

Prof Rudolf Fleischer

School / Dept

SENG / COMP

Project Duration

Aug 2002 - Jun 2004

Project Description

Students always have to learn information in class by rote and then regurgitate it in the examination. This project planned to use teaching methods which encouraged students to learn actively and deeply. Instead of going through course materials in class, students worked on their own. Class time was used to engage them in active learning by requiring students to study materials in groups in advance, which they then had to post questions on the web, spending class time to address the questions posted and running the quiz in class and having students responded using PRS handsets.

Project Outcome

A web-based course support system for COMP272 was implemented, built on top of WebCT. This enabled a more smoothly implementation of the Just-in-time Teaching paradigm which fostered active and deep learning among the students.The system could also be used for other courses.

Status

Completed

Project Documents
(Only accessible by HKUST users)

• Project Plan
• Progress Report: First | Second | Third |
• Final Report

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