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Introduction: As part of the USF HP Teaching Grant project activities, five distinct course projects were initiated. Summaries of these are presented here. To see the full descriptions, click on the project titles.
| Title | Increments and Transformations Faculty Workshop | |
| Quick Facts | Course | USF Center for 21st Century Teaching Excellence's week long summer workshop |
| Level | Faculty members | |
| Number of students | 21 | |
| Status | Ongoing | |
| Summary | HP mobile technology supplied by grant was used was a week-long workshop, run by USF's Center for 21st Century Teaching Excellence, where 20 faculty membersfrom departments across campus used the Tablet PCs to explore new ways of developing online content (e.g., using Camtasia), new approaches to classroom collaboration (e.g., using Classroom Presenter) and methods of improving teaching productivity (e.g., ink-based grading of electronic submissions, use of OneNote for research). The goal of the seminar was to give faculty participants the tools and knowledge that they would need to implement technology-enabled changes to their teaching activities in the fall semester that followed. | |
| Title | Using Classroom Presenter and Ubiquitous Presenter as a Substitute for Face-to-Face Lectures in an Introductory Programming Course | |
| Quick Facts | Course | ISM-3232: Business Application Development (Required) |
| Level | Undergraduate MIS Majors, typically juniors | |
| Number of students | 140 | |
| Status | Ongoing | |
| Summary | HP mobile technology was used to radically alter how the introductory programming course taught to MIS majors is conducted. The key element of the innovation is replacing traditional face-to-face lectures in the classroom with interactive learning sessions using Classroom Presenter or Ubiquitous Presenter to engage students. |
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| Title | Contrasting Classroom Presenter and Clicker Technologies in a Capstone MS-MIS Course | |
| Quick Facts | Course | ISM-6155: Enterprise Information Systems |
| Level | MS-MIS students in their final year | |
| Number of students | 40 | |
| Status | Ongoing | |
| Summary | HP mobile technology is being used to enhance classroom activities--both case discussions and debates--so as to better engage his students. Using Tablet PCs and Classroom Presenter, students are asked to share their opinions and analysis relating to real-life cases and debate topics. The resulting responses are then used as a basis for further discussion and as concrete evidence of student partication and formative learning. |
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| Title | Using Tablet Computers in Case-Based Teaching | |
| Quick Facts | Course | Ism6013: Management of Information Systems |
| Level | MBA required core course | |
| Number of students | 18 | |
| Status | Completed, since the investigator has left his visiting post at USF to take a tenure track position at another institution | |
| Summary | HP Tablet PC technology was used to combine students’ pre-class case analysis with notes captured during the case discussion. This allowed students to have a record of their thinking process and forced them to explicitly recognize changes to their analysis. It also allowed the instructor to make a formative learning assessment of each discussion's impact on each student. | |
| Title | Incorporating Participative and Constructivist Learning into an MBA Database Course | |
| Quick Facts | Course | Ism6217: Database Management |
| Level | MBA required course in weekend cohort program | |
| Number of students | 17 | |
| Status | Completed. Subsequent cohort offerings of the course have yet to be scheduled | |
| Summary | HP mobile technology was used to facilitate collaborative activities in Ism6217, an MBA Database Management class taught at a remote site as a required course in a cohort-based weekend program offered by USF's Sarasota campus. Specifically, Classroom Presenter was used to deliver interactive learning exercises related to developing SQL queries and for the construction of ER diagrams. In addition, students developed web-based presentations related to the course using the Tablet PCs and Lecture123 software and then viewed these outside of class time. | |
