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Throughout differente courses it has been noticed that interaction between teacher and students is somehow diminished by the students lack of confidence in asking questions or participation in the class dynamics. The purpose of this project is to build an application that addresses this issue by allowing students to participate in a class anonymously, posting questions and giving the teacher the ability to measure how much has been comprehend and learnt from any given topic.
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Traditionally, the teaching process is based on a active instructor and a pasive learner. This model is still very widely used, and even though many technologies that support teaching and learning are available, such as online access to information or multimedia, there is no real guarantee that the student is actually learning and acquiring that information. At Universidad Iberoamericana there are continuous efforts to research and implement methologies that allow for the modification of the traditional model. The Contextual Education System modifies this model by achieving mainly two things: 1)allow the student to give his unbiased individual response to a certain question or quizz, and 2) allow the teacher to measure, in real time, both the individual or class responses, giving him/her the ability to correct or reinforce the given topic. Aditioanally, the student gets more responsible of his own learning process, and thus giving him more value to it. Also, the course gets enriched with the possibility of dinamically share various resources. As a consequence, the learning and teaching method is student centered, as opposed to the method or the medium. Include links to related resources, such as learning sciences research that informs your instructional design.
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The Studend will be able to count with immediate feedback pertinent his level of performance, as well as of his classmates in order to keep track of his achievents and learning progress. I also will allow the student to have the required tools to be able to improve on the areas which he hasn't covered satisfactorily.
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The teacher is able to immediately be informed of the level of understandness that the students have achieved, so any corrective action could be taken to correct a possible defficiency. Additionally, the instructor can share documentation relevante to the specific course, allowing different visions of the subject, as well as more in depth information.
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The Contextual Education System, is implemented by a client-server architecture, which allows an instructor to generate events such as multiple choice questions and quizzes, easy access to files such as images, documents or presentations, as well as knowledge exchange using forums moderated by the instructor. The system relies on a WiFi network to connect to a database server fthat holds student information (such as class lists and permissions) and events; an ftp server for homework and class materials uploads and downloads. From the client point of view, the system is divided into two parts, a Teacher client, and a web based Student Client. The former, allows management of the course, including course materials, quizzes, attendance, and most importantly statistics about question results. These give feedback to the instructor about student's learning progress and even the teacher's ability to transmit knowledge. The web based Student client, allows the students to access said quizzes and course materials. Both clients where designed to be multiplatform, making it easier for the system administrator to install and manage the complete system. The web-based student application allows the student to log-in to the system easily using any computer, PDA, or even a cell-phone, using a wireless network connection.
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"This system allows me to have instant feedback on what the students have comprehended on the subject" Jose A. Morfin-Rojas, Senior Lecturer, Engineering Department, UIA "It's the first system of this kind that I've seen that is completely student centered, and not on the platform or the teacher" Antonio Gonzalez, Academic, Learning Technologies Deparment, UIA.
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