Summary of the project
This project has been developing a Learning-by-Testing app for first-year students in the Faculty of the Built Environment. The app has been designed to contain a "concept cloud" of around 600 crucial, explicitly linked concepts that the faculty considers essential for a first-year student's frame of reference. The app has been incorporating definitions, functions, explanations, and multimedia content to help students understand and apply these concepts.
The app has been designed with a variety of features to support student learning, including:
- Bite-sized screencasts, pencasts, and doodle videos explaining the working of concepts.
- Videos, podcasts, and texts showcasing the application of concepts in the built environment.
- Interactive multiple-choice questions that guide students through the concept cloud, providing explanations for correct and incorrect answers.
Aim of the project
The primary goal of this project has been to help first-year students expand their frame of reference and build a solid foundation of knowledge in their chosen discipline. The app aims to provide a flexible and engaging learning tool that complements traditional lectures, workshops, and projects.
The project has been aiming to:
- Consolidate students' understanding of course content through self-testing and peer-to-peer testing.
- Allow students to explore connections between concepts in more depth than is possible in lectures.
- Facilitate differentiation and integration of various disciplines within the built environment.
- Provide teachers with anonymized statistics on student understanding to inform curriculum improvement.
The app has also been designed to be scalable, with the potential to incorporate more concepts and be used by other faculties.
Results and learnings
This project is still ongoing.
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