There are a few spaces available for staff members on the Learning and Teaching Network session below:- <\/p>\n
The Use of Interactive Classroom Experiments in Teaching
\nMonday 26 March 2018
\n13.15 \u2013 14.30, UELT Seminar Room Canterbury
\nPresented by School of Economics – Sylvain Barde, Edward Cartwright, Anna Stepanova<\/p>\n
Classroom experiments have become an increasingly common way of teaching economics\u00a0and other social sciences\u00a0in an engaging and fun way. But, implementing an experiment in the classroom involves significant costs and this understandably deters many lecturers from using them. In this session we will discuss our experience running classroom experiments over many years and also chart progress on a recent project to develop experiments using o-Tree. o-Tree is new open-source\u00a0software that allows for interactive experiments that can be performed easily on smartphones and laptops etc. This has the potential to revolutionize how we run classroom experiments because it allows for easy to run, quick, large scale interactions. For instance, an asset\u00a0market, social dilemma or voting mechanism\u00a0could be run in a large lecture theatre\u00a0with instantaneous feedback on the overhead to inform learning. This is a step beyond existing classroom response systems. Students can also be given unique identifiers to participate in a number of experiments over the course of a module or degree program.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For further details, see https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/teaching\/networks\/ltn\/index.html<\/p>\n
Please email cpdbookings@kent.ac.uk to book a place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"