Brown Bag Lecture

Application of Computer Technology in Tandem with the Traditional Classroom

Presented by Jean-Pierre R. Bayard

April 6, 2000      12:00-1:00 PM 
Room 259, Educational Science Building

Electronic teaching methods are used to stimulate the teaching and learning of basic electronic circuits at California State University, Sacramento. Television and the World Wide Web are combined with traditional classroom teaching to address the issues of attendance, or lack thereof, poor performance, and timely assessment at a comprehensive urban university. While the circuits course is taught in the regular classroom, it is simultaneously broadcast through cable television in the larger Sacramento area. The course is also available through the World Wide Web including audio-video segments captured from the classroom, as well as testing/assessment modules. The significance of this experiment is that the instructor promotes the technology portion of the teaching as complementary to the classroom environment, not as an equivalent self-paced learning option. This lecture describes how Web-based materials are used to assess students’ performance, provide dynamic feedback to the instructor, and give students an opportunity for timely remedial action. 

Jean-Pierre Bayard, professor of electrical and electronic engineering at the California State University, Sacramento, is recognized as the preeminent leader on his campus in the area of effective use of learning technologies. As a National Partnership for Advanced Computing Infrastructure-funded Fellow, Jean-Pierre serves on the College Level One Team as a liaison between the NPACI Education, Outreach and Training effort and the Institute for Learning Technology (ILT). His primary projects are to develop materials for various major sites on the ILT Web site including the Case Studies, Tool and Practice Jewels, Problems to Anticipate, and Evaluation Tools.