What happens when academic support that is time sensitive, event sensitive, and machine aware is delivered to online learners via their own mobile devices? The University of Washington Tacoma (UWT) and Persistence Plus are seeking to apply analytics to this question with a system of behavioral interventions and support to enhance student learning.
"The JiTT strategy is based on the notion of a feedback loop between the out-of-class assignments and the subsequent classroom activities. Based on the student responses, the instructor selects an appropriate set of items that will make up the lesson. The classroom experience then informs the choice of the next set of web assignments. Over the past seven years faculty across the country have developed a rich set of JiTT resources. To look at some examples please visit A JiTT Sampler. "
"Peer Instruction actively engages the students in their own learning. Carefully chosen questions (ConcepTests give students the opportunity
to discover and correct their misunderstandings of the material, and, in the process, learn the key ideas of physics from one another. "
"What does it mean to see the world like a designer? What is "maker thinking?" What kinds of thinking dispositions characterize a tinkerer? These are some of the questions at the heart of the Agency by Design project, a multi-year research and development initiative at Project Zero, a research organization at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. "