Enhancing the Classroom Experience: Instructor Use of Tablets
نویسنده
چکیده
Instructors continually search for innovative approaches to interact with and engage students in the classroom. The tablet offers a potential innovation for this purpose. Tablet devices from Apple, Microsoft, and other hardware vendors have overcome many of the challenges of the past (e.g. cost and limited applications) to become useful tools for instructors. Our paper examines instructor use of tablet devices by evaluating current tablet hardware and software solutions. A number of teaching tasks are evaluated to understand how they can be enhanced with tablets. These teaching tasks are utilized in a numbers of classes followed by an examination of student perceptions of tablet technologies in the classroom. Our results suggest that tablets are an effective tool with students rating instructor effectiveness as high compared to traditional classroom approaches. Based on results from student feedback, we recommend continued tablet use in the classroom.
منابع مشابه
Bringing Innovation to the Classroom: Instructor Use of Tablets to Improve Classroom Tasks across Varying Learning Styles
Instructors continually seek new, innovative approaches to engage students in the classroom. With the widespread availability of tablet technology, instructors now have a new tool to utilize during classroom instruction. Our paper is an exploratory study to understand not only the impacts of bringing this technology into the class, but how a student's learning style may impact tablet effectiven...
متن کاملStudent Demand for Streaming Lecture Video
Real-time lectures recorded on video and streamed over the Internet are a useful supplement to non-classroom learning. However, because recording confines the instructor to the podium, the classroom experience is diminished when there is less social interaction.This study uses choice experiment data to estimate economics students’ willingness to pay for streaming lecture video and instructor mo...
متن کاملDiffusion of Educational Innovations via Co-Teaching
Physics Education Research (PER) is currently facing significant difficulties in disseminating research-based knowledge and instructional strategies to other faculty. Co-teaching is a promising and cost-effective alternative to traditional professional development that may be applicable in many situations. This paper discusses the rationale for coteaching and our initial experience with co-teac...
متن کاملPreparation, Characterization and in vitro Release Studies of Enoxaparin in Nanoparticle form and Enterically Coated Tablets Containing Different Enhancers
In the past decade, many strategies have been developed to enhance oral drug delivery. Different techniques were investigated, amongst those the use of permeation enhancers such surfactants and biodegradable polymers were studied more extensively. Chitosan derivatives have been studied as permeation enhancer in free soluble form and as nanoparticulate systems. The aim of the current work wa...
متن کاملThe Classroom of the Future: Enhancing Education through Augmented Reality
Electronic classrooms offer instructors a variety of multimedia presentation tools such as the VCR, document camera, and computer projection, allowing for the display of video clips, transparencies, and computer generated simulations and animations. Unfortunately, even the most elegant user interfaces still frustrate many would-be users. The technology tends to be underutilized because of the c...
متن کامل