Working with my studentsDr. Scott Moore

Business Information Technology, Associate Professor

Arthur F. Thurnau Professor

BBA Program Faculty Director

samoore@umich.edu / http://www.umich.edu/~samoore/

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Last summer I was revising

a class that I teach

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BIT330

I teach undergraduate

business students

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I had lost my way

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Students wanted to pay more

attention to their email and the Web

than to me and my lecture.

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I wanted to teach with, and

learn with, my students

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I needed to work with them

instead of against them

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I applied a few novel ideas

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Student

learning

Collaboration-focused

technology

Student

collaboration

Personal

motivation

Students as

scientists

Trust their

attendance

Grading

policies

Use of

class time

Class time was definitely

for doing and interacting

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Almost every class period...

A little of this A lot of this

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Learning details were left for

exercises & out-of-class activities

Class technology enabled

collaboration & sharing

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I could share with them

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They could share with me

and each other

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I taught them to be scientists

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Gather data

Evaluate data

Analyze the data

Summarize the data

Write & publish results

We did an experiment at the

beginning of the semester as a class

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We repeated this process of data

gathering and analysis throughout

the semester

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I gave them the opportunity to work

on something personally important

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Voice

Motivation

Collaboration

I allowed (and encouraged) them

to teach me and other students

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• An empowering purpose

• Projects are a teaching

opportunity

• Blogs are a teaching

opportunity

• Industry updates gave each

student an opportunity to be

the expert

20 Project as a teaching opportunity

21 Blog as a teaching opportunity

22 Student as “industry expert”

I encouraged (and

supported) collaboration

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I trusted them to come (or

not) to class

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This was what I wanted to see

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Everything was on the Web so I

had to make classtime worthwhile

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The assignments provided

many opportunities for analysis

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Informs

Insight

Personal reaction

Context & links

Length & detail

BlogsProjects

Industry updates

Notes

Experiment

write-up

Test

All of these

required

writing,

analysis, &

evaluation

Was the overall experience with

the class positive?

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• Student learning

! Blogs

! Projects

! Test scores

• Attendance

• Evaluations

• Professor learning

I had lost my way

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I needed to work with them

instead of against them

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By the end of the semester, it was

apparent that more students learned

more than in previous classes

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