Are your students browsing the Internet during lecture? Are they drawn to technology and away from your class? Do you feel like giving up? Instead of fighting technology, Professor Moore shows how embracing technology can draw students into a course. As they create course content via wikis and blogs, students take ownership of their own learning. Professor Moore demonstrates these tools, along with the challenges they can pose and ways of addressing them.

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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
•
opportunity
Blogs are a teaching
•
opportunity
Industry updates gave each
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student an opportunity to be
the expert

20. Project as a teaching opportunity
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21. Blog as a teaching opportunity
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22. 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
!
Projects
!
Test scores
!
• 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