Promoting active learning in large classrooms: Going beyond the clicker

Claudio Álvarez; Nelson Baloian; Gustavo Zurita; Fabio Guarini

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-63874-4_8

Promoting active learning in large classrooms: Going beyond the clicker

Claudio Álvarez, Nelson Baloian^*, Gustavo Zurita, Fabio Guarini

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Abstract

Teaching and learning in most current university lectures has remained unchanged for centuries and nowadays, large lecture classes are a fact at universities. Technologies such as Classroom Response Systems have been designed to ease the adoption of new pedagogical practice in these contexts; however, these pose technological, economic and pedagogical limitations to teachers, students and institutions. In this paper, we present a feasibility study of a system that allows students to take snapshots of paper-based, handwritten solutions to a given task with their devices, and then converts this input to vector graphics that are automatically hosted in a cloud-based storage service, such as Google Drive. The teacher can then discuss students’ solutions and provide elaborate formative feedback in class. We report on the findings of a feasibility study with engineering students in Chile, which validate the practicality of the approach. After this validation we plan to integrate optical character recognition capabilities in the system, in order to support programming and physics education.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Collaboration and Technology - 23rd International Conference, CRIWG 2017, Proceedings
Editors	Julita Vassileva, Sergio F. Ochoa, Tomoo Inoue, Carl Gutwin
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	95-103
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	9783319638737
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63874-4_8
State	Published - 2017
Event	23rd International Conference on Collaboration Technologies, CRIWG 2017 - Saskatoon, Canada Duration: 9 Aug 2017 → 11 Aug 2017

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	10391 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	23rd International Conference on Collaboration Technologies, CRIWG 2017
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Saskatoon
Period	9/08/17 → 11/08/17

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© Springer International Publishing AG 2017.

Keywords

Active learning
BYOD
Classroom response system (CRS)

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Álvarez, C., Baloian, N., Zurita, G., & Guarini, F. (2017). Promoting active learning in large classrooms: Going beyond the clicker. In J. Vassileva, S. F. Ochoa, T. Inoue, & C. Gutwin (Eds.), Collaboration and Technology - 23rd International Conference, CRIWG 2017, Proceedings (pp. 95-103). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 10391 LNCS). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63874-4_8

Álvarez, Claudio ; Baloian, Nelson ; Zurita, Gustavo et al. / Promoting active learning in large classrooms : Going beyond the clicker. Collaboration and Technology - 23rd International Conference, CRIWG 2017, Proceedings. editor / Julita Vassileva ; Sergio F. Ochoa ; Tomoo Inoue ; Carl Gutwin. Springer Verlag, 2017. pp. 95-103 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Álvarez, C, Baloian, N, Zurita, G & Guarini, F 2017, Promoting active learning in large classrooms: Going beyond the clicker. in J Vassileva, SF Ochoa, T Inoue & C Gutwin (eds), Collaboration and Technology - 23rd International Conference, CRIWG 2017, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 10391 LNCS, Springer Verlag, pp. 95-103, 23rd International Conference on Collaboration Technologies, CRIWG 2017, Saskatoon, Canada, 9/08/17. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63874-4_8

Promoting active learning in large classrooms: Going beyond the clicker. / Álvarez, Claudio; Baloian, Nelson; Zurita, Gustavo et al.
Collaboration and Technology - 23rd International Conference, CRIWG 2017, Proceedings. ed. / Julita Vassileva; Sergio F. Ochoa; Tomoo Inoue; Carl Gutwin. Springer Verlag, 2017. p. 95-103 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 10391 LNCS).

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Álvarez C, Baloian N, Zurita G, Guarini F. Promoting active learning in large classrooms: Going beyond the clicker. In Vassileva J, Ochoa SF, Inoue T, Gutwin C, editors, Collaboration and Technology - 23rd International Conference, CRIWG 2017, Proceedings. Springer Verlag. 2017. p. 95-103. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-63874-4_8

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