Project | Paderborn University

Overview

Promoting interactive work in large and small courses is a key cornerstone of ActiLearn. Ideas of “peer instruction” as a cooperative teaching/learning method are integrated and used to ensure the involvement of students even in large auditoriums. To this end, queries are mapped using mobile devices that provide teachers and learners with feedback on the learning process and enable the course to be tailored to the needs of the queries and adapted accordingly and to significantly improve learning success.

Objective

The aim is to

to improve the functions and variability of the software used and, in particular, to implement and integrate further forms of interactive tasks into teaching that go beyond single-choice questions and multiple-choice questions.
Expand the systematic evaluation of the learning processes of the peer instruction approach and investigate the possibilities of embedding PINGO in courses as well as incorporating classwide discussions (CD) and optional course discussions (OCD) alongside peer instruction (PI) according to Mazur.
to further develop and deepen the consolidation and sustainable anchoring of this methodological concept in teaching at Paderborn University.

Innovation

As with PINGO, ActiLearn is a cross-faculty development project involving Information Systems (Chair of Information Systems 2, Information Management & E-Finance, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics), Business Education (Chair of Business Education II, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics), Organic Chemistry (Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences) and Computer Science Education (Department of Computer Science Education, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics).