An Interactive Assurance of Learning Networked Environment (IAOLNE) for Collaborative Student Learning and Real-Time Assessment: An Experimental Design

This project proposes to use tablet PCs, wireless technology, and software (SynchronEyes™) to create an interactive assurance of learning networked environment that not only encourages intellectual engagement and active participation from all students during lectures and discussions, but also allows instructors the capability to monitor student progress, conduct real-time assessment, and provide immediate feedback and assistance to assure student learning. It is hypothesized that the collaborative environment will enhance learning by enriching the quality and increasing the quantity of interactions between students and instructors, as well as among students. The instructional redesign of three management information systems courses will follow constructivist theoretical recommendations such as students controlling the learning process; learning embedded in complex, problem-based, real-world tasks; continuous assessment and directly linked to learning tasks. The primary student learning issues that are going to be addressed by the course redesign (as permitted by the use of tablet PC equipment, wireless technologies, and SynchronEyes ™ software) are: a. low intellectual engagement of students by instructors due to limited interaction between students and facult