A presentation on the benefits of "four" instructional apps in the learning management system for improving student self-regulation, attendance and engagement tracking, instructor reflection, and predictive modeling.
2. The charge
Choose a functionality in the LMS that would be worthy of all faculty using, and put
together a training that shows the value of adding this skill to their current student
facing activities and the ease with which they might do that.
3. 4 killer apps that fit the bill
1. Student self-monitoring app
2. Engagement and attendance app
3. Instructional reflection app
4. Prediction app for student success
28. What’s the commitment?
20-30 minutes Semester start*
2-3 minutes Each class for attendance**
5-7 minutes Weekly to enter assignment grades***
*** Minimize by copying your shell forward
*** No net cost if you’re already taking attendance
*** No net cost if you’re already keeping a gradebook
In just a moment we’re going to use Poll Everywhere to collect everyone’s thoughts
This will be a word cloud, so terms common to our responses will grow larger
Poll Title: My top priority as a classroom teacher is....
https://www.polleverywhere.com/free_text_polls/W9fb5kod08UqFHwYIvILP
Engaging students in the practice of metacognition has many positive effects in the educational process.
First half of metacog is self-reg
students planning their approach to learning,
monitoring their progress, and
checking their outcomes
Anchoring reflective processes are questions about
(a) what students think they do and do not know and
(b) how they think (Flavell, 1979).
Metacognitive strategies have been linked, with large effect sizes, to achievement of academic goals, deeper learning, and increased transfer of learning to novel scenarios (Hattie & Donoghue, 2016).
Elements of reflection and self-regulation similarly benefit students’ motivation and affect (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2018).
Attendance related to better exam performance
Attendance related to better course grades
Poll Title: How often do I reflect on how I'm doing as an instructor?
https://www.polleverywhere.com/free_text_polls/wZgar4TmiAkayuPtF66Hq
Ask for to volunteers to share….
Summarize: we look for data of all sorts. But boil it down and it’s data
A project I’ve been leading is the creation of a predictive model for student persistence
We’ve gotten 84% accuracy with
This type of work has helped lead to graduation 20% above national levels for adult learners
Students graduate on time with fewer DFW
Tell the Steve Jobs story
We are launching three revolutionary new products:
Widescreen iPod with touch controls
Mobile phone
Internet communications device
When really, it was all the same thing: the iPhone
The fun part of my job is helping folks think about tech in this way: you can get a ton of different benefits from the same tool, but you need to start with the end in sight and then decide how you want to get there
List of all assignments in course along with visual cues about submission, grade, etc.
What’s my course grade?
Where am I struggling most? Should I go to tutoring?
What might I be missing? I thought I turned that in?
List of all assignments in course along with visual cues about submission, grade, etc.
What’s my course grade?
Where am I struggling most? Should I go to tutoring?
What might I be missing? I thought I turned that in?
Add attendance
Create a grading scale
Color code
Highlight missing work, low scores, etc.
See at a quick glance if a student has a concerning trend with engagement
Ask them to take a look, first. What questions do they have? What are they seeing?
What was the average performance?
How many students didn’t submit?
Where did most students perform?
What do we need to do from here?
Whether you have a tool like Starfish or you use API calls to extract grades and put them into a data warehouse
The end result is a machine learning algorithm finds the patterns from thousands of records
Highly accurate predictions
But, the rub is you need the data and interactions from the gradebook and LMS