Emergent Patterns of Teaching/Learning in Electronic Classrooms
Emergent Patterns of Teaching/Learning in Electronic Classrooms
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1998-12-05
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Shneiderman, Ben
Borkowski, Ellen Yu
Alavi, Maryam
Norman, Kent L.
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Abstract
Novel patterns of teaching/learning have emerged from faculty and students who
use our three Teaching/Learning Theaters at the University of Maryland,
College Park. These fully-equipped electronic classrooms have been used by 74
faculty in 264 semester-long courses since the Fall of 1991 with largely
enthusiastic reception by both faculty and students. The designers of the
Teaching/Learning Theaters sought to provide a technologically rich
environment and a support staff so that faculty could concentrate on changing
the traditional lecture from its unidirectional information flow to a more
collaborative activity. As faculty evolved their personal styles in using the
electronic classrooms, novel patterns of teaching/learning have emerged. In
addition to enhanced lectures, we identified three common patterns: active
individual learning, small-group collaborative learning, and entire-class
collaborative learning.