Workshop - improving student engagement and intuition with the mobile studio pedagogy

Abstract

This workshop will engage the participants in a hands-on ldquostudio sessionrdquo that demonstrates how PCs are being used to create new mobile ldquostudiordquo environments anywhere, at anytime; thereby allowing instructors to engage their students in hands-on activities that provide them with a visualization and scaffolding of key concepts. This new approach to teaching integrates lecture, problem session and laboratory experimentation activities in both in-class and out-of-class environments; providing an avenue for instructors to reap the benefits of employing the Kolb cycle of learning in teaching their courses. The session will begin with an overview of the mobile studio pedagogy, how it is being used in engineering and science courses at three schools (RPI, Howard and Rose-Hulman) and then review, as a result of an assessment (conducted by the Evaluation Consortium at UAlbany), the tremendous impact that the new practices have had on student learning.