SLIDE SHOW IN LEARNING PROCESS

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SLIDE SHOW IN LEARNING PROCESS

• Inese Bula
• University of Latvia
• Riga, 10-11 May, 2007

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What is it?

• Microsoft PowerPoint presentations
• Microsoft Word presentations
• another Microsoft presentations (Exel)
• PDF or PS file presentations
• another presentations with computer
• transparencies
• movie

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Questionnaire about the usage of slides

• In Department of Mathematics
• 16 respondents (lecturers)
• Do you use slides during the lectures?
• Yes 5 No 11
• Is the usage of slides helpful presenting the
  lecture? Yes
• Is the usage of slides helpful for students to
  understand the lecture? Yes

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• In Department of Computer Science
• 14 respondents (lecturers)
• Do you use slides during the lectures?
• Yes 11 No 3
• Is the usage of slides helpful presenting the
  lecture? Yes
• Is the usage of slides helpful for students to
  understand the lecture? Yes 12 No 2

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Goodness of use

• It is possible to more tell
• It is possible to clearer tell (visualizations,
  diagrams, graphs, chart, block schemes)
• Structural peculiarities
• It is available printout

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Badness of use

• It is cinema!
• Students can not write down
• Students can not coming to lectures
• Prof. J.Borzovs cilvekiem rokas kustibas ir
  cieši saistitas ar domašanu.
• Necessary
• Home works and exercises

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Questionnaire about the lectures of Mathematical
analysis I

• 85 respondents (1-st course students of computer
  science)
• Which lectures do you like best?
• a) with slides b) without slides.
• 48
  37

37 44
48 56
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• In which case do you understand better
• the new topic of the lecture?
• a) with slides b) without slides.
• 52 31 2
  5050

2 2
31 36
52 62
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• Which is the more efficient way
• how to use slides?
• a) slides should be handed in before the lecture
  
• 54
• b) slides should be handed in after the lecture
• 6
• c) slides should be available in general
• 30
• d) slides should not be available for students.
• 0

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• Is there a need for exercises done by hand
  during the lectures with slides
• exercises are necessary
• 84
• b) exercises are not necessary
• 1

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• Should the whole lecture material be presented
  with slides?
• yes
• 24
• b) no, only definitions and theorems should be on
  slides
• 30
• c) no, only illustrative material should be on
  slides
• 23

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• Suggestions
• The whole lecture material should be on webCT
• More exercises needed
• Without slides it is much easier to follow
  lectures on the blackboard
• More practical works needed

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• Mathematical analysis is not the subject you can
  learn from slides
• /Analize nav priekšmets, kuru var macities no
  slaidiem/
• Better design is needed for slides
• Without slides I do not have a feeling of safety
  and self-confidence
• /Bez slaidiem man nav drošibas un miera sajutas/

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Thank You!