Exploring a Method of Enhancing Student Engagement When Teaching a Large STEM Cohort in Higher Education Context

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10.2991/978-94-6463-012-1_43How to use a DOI?

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Animation Slide; Education; Lecture Presentation; Student Engagement; Software; Teaching; University

Abstract

Lecturing is generally the most common mode of delivery for complex engineering concepts to a large student cohort. The delivery method has evolved from traditional blackboard to more sophisticated presentation using computer software. With a blackboard, relatively static material is developed live by lecturers whereas through a computer-based presentation, most teaching material preparation is done prior to a lecture and relatively little is done while delivering the lecture. Consequently, it is feasible to generate sophisticated animations in a classroom. However, developing a media rich content is still a time-consuming process. Effectiveness and efficiency of this mode of lecture delivery is analysed in this article. Primarily, the paper explores various animation techniques and delivery that can be used to teach a large cohort. Additionally, student engagement and learning improvement as result are also examined in this study. Therefore, a survey was carried out on undergraduate engineering students at a Malaysian university and data from two different student cohorts were analysed. Consequently, one cohort was taught traditionally, but an animated content was used to teach the other to collect a different set of data. The result shows that student engagement was improved by the animated lecture delivery, but it could not be established whether student learning also got improved or not.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Chung Ket Thein
AU  - Devinder Kumar Yadav
AU  - Wei Jen Chew
AU  - Yufei Wang
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/09
TI  - Exploring a Method of Enhancing Student Engagement When Teaching a Large STEM Cohort in Higher Education Context
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Educational Innovation and Multimedia Technology (EIMT 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 383
EP  - 391
SN  - 2667-128X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-012-1_43
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-012-1_43
ID  - Thein2022
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