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Working with my students
Dr. Scott Moore
Business Information Technology, Associate Professor
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
BBA Program Faculty Director
samoore@umich.edu / http://www.umich.edu/~samoore/

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BIT330
Last summer I was revising
a class that I teach

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I teach undergraduate
business students

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I had lost my way

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Students wanted to pay more
attention to their email and the Web
than to me and my lecture.

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I wanted to teach with, and
learn with, my students

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I needed to work with them
instead of against them

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I applied a few novel ideas
Use of
class time
Grading Collaboration-focused
policies technology
Student Student
learning collaboration
Trust their
attendance
Personal
motivation
Students as
scientists

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Class time was definitely
for doing and interacting

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Almost every class period...
A little of this A lot of this

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Learning details were left for
exercises & out-of-class activities

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Class technology enabled
collaboration & sharing

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I could share with them

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They could share with me
and each other

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I taught them to be scientists
Gather data
Evaluate data
Analyze the data
Summarize the data
Write & publish results

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We did an experiment at the
beginning of the semester as a class

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We repeated this process of data
gathering and analysis throughout
the semester

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Collaboration
Voice
Motivation
I gave them the opportunity to work
on something personally important

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I allowed (and encouraged) them
to teach me and other students
An empowering purpose
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Projects are a teaching
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opportunity
Blogs are a teaching
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opportunity
Industry updates gave each
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student an opportunity to be
the expert

Project as a teaching opportunity
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Blog as a teaching opportunity
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Student as “industry expert”
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I encouraged (and
supported) collaboration

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I trusted them to come (or
not) to class

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This was what I wanted to see

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Everything was on the Web so I
had to make classtime worthwhile

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Blogs
Projects
All of these
required Informs
Industry updates
writing,
analysis, & Insight
Experiment
evaluation
write-up
Personal reaction
Context & links
Test
Length & detail
Notes
The assignments provided
many opportunities for analysis

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Was the overall experience with
the class positive?
• Student learning
Blogs
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Projects
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Test scores
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• Attendance
• Evaluations
• Professor learning

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I had lost my way

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I needed to work with them
instead of against them

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By the end of the semester, it was
apparent that more students learned
more than in previous classes