University Implementation of TEACHActive – An Automated Classroom Feedback System and Dashboard

Computer vision has the potential to play a significant role in capacity building for classroom instructors via automated feedback. This paper describes the implementation of an automated sensing and feedback system, TEACHActive. The results of this paper can enable other campuses to replicate a similar system using open-source software and consumer-grade hardware. Some of the challenges discussed include faculty recruitment, IRB procedures, camera-based classroom footage privacy, hardware setup, software setup, and IT support. The design and implementation of the TEACHActive system is being carried out at Iowa State University and is being tested with faculty in classrooms pilots. Preliminary interviews with instructors show a desire to include more active learning methods in their classrooms and overall interest in a system that can perform automated feedback. The primary results of this paper include lessons learned from the institutional implementation process.

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The Fluid Dynamics of Turbomachinery Program: Objectives, Organization and Results

Volume 5: Manufacturing Materials and Metallurgy; Ceramics; Structures and Dynamics; Controls, Diagnostics and Instrumentation; Education; Process Industries; Technology Resources; General ◽

10.1115/82-gt-192 ◽

1982 ◽

Author(s):

G. K. Serovy ◽

T. H. Okiishi

Keyword(s):

Fluid Dynamics ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

State University ◽

Good Luck ◽

Iowa State University ◽

Original Intent ◽

Educational Effort ◽

Number Of Factors ◽

The Many ◽

High Level

Since 1968, an advanced educational program in the fluid dynamics of turbomachinery has been offered by the ASME Turbomachinery Institute at Iowa State University. Initiated by concerned individuals to help meet the need for high-level, continuing education in this field of specialization, the course appears to be accomplishing its original intent. The success of the program can be attributed to a number of factors including a good faculty, an eager and qualified group of participants, and scholarly surroundings. As might be expected, timely and thoughtful planning, good luck and competent support are also essential. Of the many lessons learned about this kind of educational effort, several seem important enough to report in this paper.

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A Blueprint for Developing Black Male Leader Identity, Capacity, and Efficacy Through Leadership Learning

Overcoming Challenges and Creating Opportunity for African American Male Students - Advances in Educational Marketing, Administration, and Leadership ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-5990-0.ch002 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 18-40

Author(s):

Dorsey Spencer Jr. ◽

Kathy L. Guthrie

Keyword(s):

Postsecondary Education ◽

Black Male ◽

Implementation Process ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Florida State University ◽

State University ◽

Institutional Mission ◽

Leader Identity ◽

Learning Framework ◽

Male Leader

Developing future leaders has always been an important part of postsecondary education, as seen currently in many institutional mission statements. This chapter explores the development of leader identity, capacity, and efficacy of Black men through an academic course at Florida State University. Building on the foundations of the leadership learning framework and the culturally relevant leadership learning model, the Black Male Leadership course was intentionally developed and is taught each semester. The authors provide an overview of the course, report course participants' perceptions of the course, and lessons learned in the course development and implementation process. This chapter hopefully provides a blueprint for institutions to develop and implement such a course.

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A Blueprint for Developing Black Male Leader Identity, Capacity, and Efficacy Through Leadership Learning

Research Anthology on Business and Technical Education in the Information Era ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-5345-9.ch015 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 259-276

Author(s):

Dorsey Spencer Jr. ◽

Kathy L. Guthrie

Keyword(s):

Postsecondary Education ◽

Black Male ◽

Implementation Process ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Florida State University ◽

State University ◽

Institutional Mission ◽

Leader Identity ◽

Learning Framework ◽

Male Leader

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Outreach Opportunities Using the Instructional SEM at Iowa State University

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100164520 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 54 ◽

pp. 412-413

Author(s):

L. S. Chumbley ◽

M. Meyer ◽

K. Fredrickson ◽

F.C. Laabs

Keyword(s):

Materials Science ◽

State University ◽

Digital Cameras ◽

Audio Signals ◽

Iowa State University ◽

Cornell University ◽

Sem Image ◽

Local Schools ◽

Materials Science And Engineering ◽

Video And Audio

The development of a scanning electron microscope (SEM) suitable for instructional purposes has created a large number of outreach opportunities for the Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) Department at Iowa State University. Several collaborative efforts are presently underway with local schools and the Department of Curriculum and Instruction (C&I) at ISU to bring SEM technology into the classroom in a near live-time, interactive manner. The SEM laboratory is shown in Figure 1.Interactions between the laboratory and the classroom use inexpensive digital cameras and shareware called CU-SeeMe, Figure 2. Developed by Cornell University and available over the internet, CUSeeMe provides inexpensive video conferencing capabilities. The software allows video and audio signals from Quikcam™ cameras to be sent and received between computers. A reflector site has been established in the MSE department that allows eight different computers to be interconnected simultaneously. This arrangement allows us to demonstrate SEM principles in the classroom. An Apple Macintosh has been configured to allow the SEM image to be seen using CU-SeeMe.

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The Instructional SEM Laboratory at Iowa State University

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100164441 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 54 ◽

pp. 396-397

Author(s):

L. S. Chumbley ◽

M. Meyer ◽

K. Fredrickson ◽

F.C. Laabs

Keyword(s):

Materials Science ◽

Computer Network ◽

Energy Dispersive Spectrometer ◽

Computer Control ◽

State University ◽

Iowa State University ◽

Internet Server ◽

Schematic Layout ◽

Hands On ◽

Improve Instruction

The Materials Science Department at Iowa State University has developed a laboratory designed to improve instruction in the use of the scanning electron microscope (SEM). The laboratory makes use of a computer network and a series of remote workstations in a classroom setting to provide students with increased hands-on access to the SEM. The laboratory has also been equipped such that distance learning via the internet can be achieved.A view of the laboratory is shown in Figure 1. The laboratory consists of a JEOL 6100 SEM, a Macintosh Quadra computer that acts as a server for the network and controls the energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS), four Macintosh computers that act as remote workstations, and a fifth Macintosh that acts as an internet server. A schematic layout of the classroom is shown in Figure 2. The workstations are connected directly to the SEM to allow joystick and computer control of the microscope. An ethernet connection between the Quadra and the workstations allows students seated there to operate the EDS. Control of the microscope and joystick is passed between the workstations by a switch-box assembly that resides at the microscope console. When the switch-box assembly is activated a direct serial line is established between the specified workstation and the microscope via the SEM’s RS-232.

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