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Changing the way of Teaching
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Changing the way of Teaching
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The Academic Computing Center
(ACC) held its sixth AUB seminar on teaching and learning
with technology on May 29 in College Hall, where a panel of
professors introduced their experiences of web-enhanced
classes.The first person to speak was Thalia Arawi,
professor of Internal Medicine, who illustrated how she has
been making use of Moodle, an online learning management
system, to enrich her classes. |
The sixth ACC
seminar on teaching and learning B1, College Hall |
Taking advantage of discussion forums on Moodle, Arawi organized her
classes according to modules that are covered throughout the
semester, whereby students could post any comments or questions they
had about the material. Each posting was visible to the entire
class, allowing for an out-of-the-classroom exchange. Video and
audio footage greatly enhanced the quality of learning for the
students and made the courses more dynamic.
George Arbid of the Faculty of Architecture and Design delivered a
presentation on the integrated use of computer-aided software that
proved invaluable for the training of first-year architecture
students. His animated lecture and PowerPoint aids significantly
facilitated the students' ability to learn the fundamental
techniques in drawing and principles of perspective.
The final presentation by Leila Hanna of the Olayan School of
Business documented her efforts to make her course, Marketing
Communications, a useful collaborative learning experience. Where
her course once rested on a webpage with fixed course information,
Hanna decided to try using a blog, an online journal, to give her
students more opportunity to contribute to the course. After
attending an ACC seminar the year before, Hanna had been introduced
to Moodle, which gave her a promising solution to create both an
online album and a venue for her students to provide creative ideas
for the course.
The ACC had also arranged a web conference with Alan Aycock of the
University of Wisconsin, in which he argued for the effectiveness of
integrating online work with the classroom as a pedagogical tool.
According to him, blended courses make it easier for students to
temporarily "suspend their beliefs and open up to new ideas." At
AUB, faculty have taken on this new technology to a surprising
extent; in this past year, 50 percent of AUB instructors have
incorporated Moodle into 55 percent of all AUB course sections.
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