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This panel discussion will highlight emerging best practices in the use of Tablet PCs to transform learning and teaching in college and university engineering and computer science related courses. Faculty from four institutions will share their experience in redesigning a key course to improve student outcomes, and demonstrate how their innovative use of Tablet PCs has enabled new approaches to collaboration...
Tablet PCs combine a standard notebook computer with a digitizing screen and a pen-like stylus device to produce a computer that allows ease of input of natural writing and drawing. The tool WriteOn was developed to allow the user to effectively draw on top of any application shown on the tablet PC screen. Conceptually set up as a virtual transparency, WriteOn allows a presenter to annotate on an...
In the Spring of 2006, tablet PCs were used in a new introductory course in Electrical and Computer Engineering to bridge the gap between lecture and laboratory activities. Additionally, the tablet PCs facilitated active learning in the classroom, such as by wirelessly recording feedback on concept questions and enabling collaborative problem solving. These activities allowed lecture content and pacing...
For over ten years Rose-Hulman has required all incoming students to purchase an institute-selected laptop computer and an associated suite of software. Students use their laptops in classrooms on a daily basis. More recently, we have begun to ask: What is beyond the laptop initiative? One possible answer is a combination of pen-based Tablet PCs and interaction-enhancing software like DyKnow Vision...
With support from Microsoft Research, we conducted a semester-long experiment to assess whether using Classroom Presenter software on Tablet PCs in our CS453 Electronic Commerce Technology course had any measurable effect on learning outcomes. This class of 52 students divided (by self-selection) into three groups: 19 students used Tablets; 20 used laptops; 13 had neither. We utilized Classroom Presenter...
This paper presents work on an advanced multimedia lecture hall exploiting large tiled displays and student laptops, the software supporting their combined use, and the initial validation of this environment in enhancing learning and student-instructor interaction. Large resolution tiled displays allow multiple students with laptops or tablet PC's to present their work and collaborate with the instructor...
Tablet PCs ("TPC's) are drawing interest as a potential tool for improving teaching and learning in engineering education. Several schools have obtained the machines and are looking at effective uses. An initiative at Penn State involves thirty-one engineering faculty from eleven different disciplines. All of these faculties are trying out TPCs in their courses, and have agreed to do so for the...
In this workshop, participants will gain hands-on experience which will prepare them to lecture and perform active learning exercises with the ubiquitous presenter (UP) system. UP (in use by more than 10 faculty at over 6 institutions), is a Web-based system which enables instructors (with a Tablet PC) to incorporate the best of chalk and digital presentations and automatically archives materials...
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