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- Beedie School of Business: Anne Macdonald
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- 2025 STLHE Conference [Early bird registration deadline: May 9, 2025]
- Cfp: Mokakiiks Symposium for SoTL 2025 [Deadline: May 23, 2025]
- Cfp: Graduate/Post-doc Students Teaching in Higher Education Conference [Deadline: May 26, 2025]
- Supporting Trauma-Informed Teaching with a Community of Practice Model [May 27, 2025]
- Responsible AI Use in the Classroom – Starting Conversations with Students [May 30, 2025]
- An Introduction to the GenAI in Teaching and Learning Toolkit [June 16 - 20, 2025]
- Students As Partners Roundtable [Save the Date: June 25-27, 2025]
- Digital Pedagogy Conference [August 12-14, 2025]
- 2025 Banff Symposium for SoTL [Save the date: Oct 14-16, 2025]
- For Research Personnel
Evaluation of the Project-based Learning Approach in Activating Theory for Intro to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) students
Grant program: Teaching and Learning Development Grant (TLDG)
Grant recipient: Brian Fisher, School of Interactive Arts and Technology
Project team: Aldo Barrera, research assistant, and Barbara Berry, Centre for Educational Excellence
Timeframe: January 2019 to May 2021
Funding: $5950
Course addressed: IAT 201 – Human-Computer Interaction and Cognition
Final report: View Brian Fisher's final report (PDF) and appendix (PDF)
Description: In this course, students as novice Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) designers are taught to consider cognitive science theory as it applies to the design of user interfaces. We want to find out how useful the problem-based learning (PBL) approach is and specifically scaffolded tasks are in supporting students to learn to apply the theoretical content that is being taught in the lectures.
The results of our work will inform the revision of the current PBL approach being used, and we anticipate that the results will help us to develop a Teaching Assistant manual for facilitating PBL in future deliveries of this course. Finally, we have applied a similar approach in IAT 351 and we believe that lessons from this inquiry will inform the design and implementation of PBLs in this course as well.
Questions addressed:
- How effective is the PBL at assisting students to apply cognitive theories in relation to a design action?
- How does the DeDe task that is included in the PBL enable students to demonstrate the learning outcomes for a particular component?
- What are the informational and instructional requirements for the teaching assistants to coach students in using the PBLs in IAT 201 in the future?
Knowledge sharing: I have had multiple discussions with our UCC, Associated Director, and Director about the outcomes and the possibility of better integrating this course with others in the curriculum. I have worked with instructors for IAT 309 Writing for Research to better prepare students for their course.
Keywords: Problem-based learning, design thinking, cognitive psychology, design science