2. Team Members Unjoo Lee, Librarian Harry Lord, Title V Web 2.0 Tech Activities Director
3. Research Plan Students views on what are the primary limitations and strengths to their learning Will Facebook participation help student learning? What other interventions can benefit?
4. Part A: Unjoo’s ClassEtudes Discussion w Rubric Unjoo’sclass is taught online, in Etudes.
6. Findings 80% of online students “lack time”. The majority of online students had a good foundation of basic skills (English and Math). Little more than half the students felt that the use of Facebook was not helping their learning.
10. Summary Students who participated in Facebook had a higher grade. Students who sent Facebook messages required immediate attention. Setting a rubric helps the quality of posts on the discussion board. Ice breaker helps students engage and collaborate with team mates.
11. Part 2: Harry’sChem Class The class explored their limitations to learning, online in the Discussion Forum in our CMS (Bb),
13. Learning Limitations Interestingly, the primary limitations did not include time, effort or study methods, but rather: (a) Math anxiety, (b) Inability to tackle word problems, & (c) Fear of failure (lack of confidence).
15. Interventions Applied, 2 Creation of study & work groups, with “master” students & instructor assisting,
16. Interventions Applied, 3 Friday evening &/or Saturday AM, 3 hr guided workshops with 1 on 1 assistance.
17. Results The student response has been very positive, with the guided workshops the most useful. Comparing the same test in the prior semester with this semester, the class average increased by almost 10%, even though for the prior test this semester was 3.7% lower.
18. Recommendations 1. The college should create and offer a set of math review workshops for introductory chem (or science) students, and/or empathetic tutoring services. 2. The college should offer training to a select group of tutors to work with low self-confidence students.
19. Contact us Unjoo Lee, LeeU@elac.edu Harry Lord, lordhc@elac.edu East Los Angeles College 1301 AvenidaCesar Chavez Monterey Park, CA, 91754 www.elac.edu
