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Abstracts - Poster Sessions
NOTE: Posters will be displayed in the Butler-Carlton Hall Atrium at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 17, during the Vendor Reception. All sessions take place in Butler-Carlton Hall on the Missouri S&T campus ~ Using Student-Designed Games to Enhance Learning in Principles of Economics Classes POSTER SESSION / CERTI EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM MINI-GRANT SESSION Presenters: Tags: student engagement; experiential learning Audience: K-12; Higher Education Time, Date, and Location: 4:30 p.m., Thursday, March 17, BCH Atrium This project focuses on the use of a non-standard teaching technique in Economics Principles classes. We required students, as part of a group, to design original games with an economic theme drawing on the material discussed in class. We have collected performance data using standardized pre and post-tests, as well as periodic Blackboard quizzes and in class exams. We analyzed the data to assess the impact of this approach on students’ understanding of economic concepts and overall performance. ~ Assessment of Freshman Mathematics Placement at Missouri S&T POSTER SESSION / CERTI EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM MINI-GRANT SESSION Presenter: Stephanie L. Fitch - Associate Teaching Professor of Mathematics & Statistics; Missouri S&T Tags: freshman success; assessment; placement; mathematics Audience: Higher Education Time, Date, and Location: 4:30 p.m., Thursday, March 17, BCH Atrium For the fall semesters from 2011-2015, each freshman cohort’s mathematics courses and grades in those courses were collected. This data was analyzed to determine the breakdown of math courses into which our freshman begin, and whether our freshmen are successful in their first math courses. Faculty advisors can use this data to better guide students into the correct first math courses. Success in math in the first semester is crucial to student success, especially in STEM fields. Changes to our placement system may be considered based on these results. ~ Experiential Entrepreneurship: Using Internet Tools to Enhance Collaborative and Experiential Learning POSTER SESSION Presenters: Tags: experiential learning; entrepreneurship; collaborative learning; Lean Launchpad; Business Model Canvas Audience: Higher Education Time, Date, and Location: 4:30 p.m., Thursday, March 17, BCH Atrium This presentation focuses on digital tools used in CS 5001: Experiential Entrepreneurship. This course is an interdisciplinary team approach and uses evidence-based entrepreneurship and experiential learning throughout the course. It provides an opportunity to learn how to start a high-tech scalable company. Internet tools (Lean Launchpad) are used to enhance student learning (both in and outside the classroom) and permits feedback from team members, peers, internal and external mentors and teaching team faculty. ~ An Assessment of the Effect of Collaborative Study on Students' Mathematical Problem Solving Attitude POSTER SESSION Presenter: Dr. Salih Birisci - Assistant Professor of Elementary Education; Artvin Coruh University in Turkey Tags: collaborative learning; online collaboration; problem solving; attitude Audience: K-12; Higher Education Time, Date, and Location: 4:30 p.m., Thursday, March 17, BCH Atrium This study investigated the effects of group collaboration on the students’ mathematical problem solving attitude compared to traditional work. Forty-two pre-service teachers enrolled in the study which were divided into three groups: Synchronous Online (SO, n=12), Face-to-Face (F2F, n=15) and Individual (Ind, n=15). Students in each group were required to solve four ill-structured problems under problem solving sessions over a six-week period. It is used a quantitative analysis of data. The results indicate that, students' problem solving attitudes were increased in all groups; however, students in collaborative groups had statistically significant positive change towards problem solving. Furthermore, F2F group students' attitude scores were found to be higher than those of in SO and Ind. ~ Project Lead the Way (PLTW): Preparing for Engineering and More from Kindergarten through 12th Grade POSTER SESSION Presenter: Ben Yates - Affiliate Director for Project Lead the Way; Missouri S&T Tags: STEM education; PLTW; Project Lead the Way; K-12 education Audience: K-12; Higher Education Time, Date, and Location: 4:30 p.m., Thursday, March 17, BCH Atrium PLTW is a national STEM K-12 education program involving engineering, biomedical science and computer science. PLTW is based on the pedagogy of project/problem-based, hands-on teaching and learning and involves over one million students in all 50 states and Washington D.C. ~ Reducing the Cost of Course Materials with Digital Initiatives POSTER SESSION Presenter: Mark Gallardo - Manager of The S&T Store; Missouri S&T Tags: digital content; student engagement; interactive course materials; cost of course materials; AutoAccess Audience: Higher Education Time, Date, and Location: 4:30 p.m., Thursday, March 17, BCH Atrium
~ Teaching Writing through Google Drive POSTER SESSION Presenter: Karen Sprous - English as a Second Language Teacher; Rolla Public Schools Tags: flipped classroom; online writing labs; collaborative projects Audience: K-12; Higher-Education Time, Date, and Location: 4:30 p.m., Thursday, March 17, BCH Atrium In classes that focus on writing skills, the ability to read and comment on students’ work goes a long way in helping the student to feel confident in their writing. With the introduction of Google Drive, students are no longer isolated in their learning, and their learning becomes mobile. Teachers are able to play a more active role in the early stages of writing, and according to research, the students pay more attention to the comments from teachers; corrections and feedback go hand in hand with the learning process. ~ Short and Sweet: Maximizing Your Video Views POSTER SESSION Presenter: Razmus Kerwin - Instructional Developer; Missouri S&T Tags: online quizzes; online homework; feedback; analysis Audience: Higher Education Time, Date, and Location: 4:30 p.m., Thursday, March 17, BCH Atrium Students engage with video content. Generally speaking, most students will watch most of a video most of the way though most of the time. In order to better understand student video content viewing patterns, this poster examines video content analytics generated during an S&T online course held over the Summer of 2015. The course, History of Folklore and Mythology, taught by Dr. Eric Bryan, was an asynchronous online course where recorded video lectures were a primary mode of instructional delivery. Examining student viewing habits across a semester’s worth of video content reveals relationships between those habits and the content itself which may be instructive for those creating video content for an undergraduate student audience. For example, there appears to be a direct relationship between the average number and duration of views and the runtime of a video content item. This relationship suggests a pattern of arrangement for video content which results in maximum exposure to students in the form of viewer impressions; for maximum video views, video content items should average less than seven minutes runtime. ~ Implementing Moodle as a Mobile Learning Initiative in Tertiary and Distance Learning Institutions in Nigeria POSTER SESSION Presenter: Samuel Aina - Independent Trainer; Meleet Education Initiatives Tags: Moodle, mobile learning, tertiary institutions, distance learning institutions Mobile learning has not been largely implemented in tertiary institutions in Nigeria. The challenges of infrastructure and cost have constituted major barriers towards institution-wide implementation of mobile learning initiatives in Nigeria tertiary institutions. There is a need for a cost-effective and efficient solution for mobile learning implementation for course delivery in Nigeria tertiary and distance learning institutions. This presentation examines the capability of Moodle for delivering content for mobile learning; identifies the features of Moodle for mobile learning and discusses the process of deploying Moodle for Mobile learning in tertiary institutions and distance learning institutions in Nigeria. The presentation further examines the advantages and limitations of deploying Moodle for mobile learning in tertiary institutions. It concludes with recommendations for effectively deploying Moodle in a mobile leaning context to reach the teeming population of the mobile generation of students in tertiary institutions of learning in Nigeria. |
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