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Blending Peer Instruction with Just-In-Time Teaching: Jointly Optimal Task Scheduling with Feedback for Classroom Flipping

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L@S '21: Proceedings of the Eighth ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale

Pages 117 - 126

https://doi.org/10.1145/3430895.3460134

Published: 08 June 2021 Publication History

L@S '21: Proceedings of the Eighth ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale

Blending Peer Instruction with Just-In-Time Teaching: Jointly Optimal Task Scheduling with Feedback for Classroom Flipping

Pages 117 - 126

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Blended learning often requires alternating between asynchronous pre-class and synchronous in-class activities using online technologies to enhance the overall learning experience. Subject to constraints on desired learning outcome specifications and individual student preference, can we jointly optimize pre-class and in-class tasks to improve the two-way interaction between students and the instructor? We leverage ideas of self-assessment in Just-In-Time Teaching and Peer Instruction to propose an optimization-theoretic framework to analyze the optimal trade-off between the time invested in two different learning tasks for each individual student. We show that the problem can be formulated as a linear program, which can be efficiently solved to determine the optimal amount of time for pre-class and in-class learning. We develop a mobile chatbot software integrated with feedback data analytics to blend asynchronous pre-class quiz assessment together with the synchronous in-class poll-quiz routine of Peer Instruction to achieve classroom flipping that can be used for remote and hybrid teaching and learning.

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Blending Peer Instruction with Just-In-Time Teaching: Jointly Optimal Task Scheduling with Feedback for Classroom Flipping
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
2. Theory of computation
  1. Design and analysis of algorithms
    1. Mathematical optimization
      1. Continuous optimization
        Linear programming

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L@S '21: Proceedings of the Eighth ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale

June 2021

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DOI:10.1145/3430895

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