Integrating Drawing Tablet and Video Capturing/Sharing to Facilitate Student Learning
Chen-Wei Wang · 2019
We report the experience of adopting an innovative technique for in-class instruction. The technique relies on: 1) replacing the black-board/whiteboard by a portable drawing tablet; 2) preparing starter pages consisting of code fragments or writings/figures on the drawing tablet for in-class illustrations on complex ideas; 3) recording the in-class illustrations on the drawing tablet for students to review the thinking process after class. This technique has been adopted in three Computer Science and Software Engineering courses, ranging from freshman to junior years, and the student evaluation results indicate that this technique is effective and helps students achieve the course learning outcomes. Comparison of student performance on complex ideas also indicates a positive impact of our approach.