In traditional classrooms, academic assessment of students’ cognitive ability and is mainly comprised of questions from teachers or textbooks. In light of contemporary education theory, researchers and practitioners have been paying more and more attention to having students construct questions on studied materials that they think are relevant and important. A customizable, online, student-generated-questions environment that accentuates various scaffolding techniques has been designed, developed, and integrated in higher education to support student active learning. The framework guiding the development of the system, and its associated designs and available functions, will be introduced. Finally, suggestions based on experiences drawn from in-class integration and implementations of the developed system and accompanying strategies in higher education for about three years will be shared.
Fu-Yun Yu’s research interest has always been related to how to devise and integrate instructional strategies within technology-enhanced environments for the enhancement of student learning and development. For the past five years or so, she has been focusing on one innovative strategy—question generation by students at various educational levels, after observing its effects on directing students to activate higher-order thinking skills and to be engaged in meaningful learning in the classrooms.
Tuesday, 3:30PM