MIT Guided Inquiry/Tutorials: On Line Delivery of Review Tutorials and ComplexProblems in Science and Engineering Steven Lerman, John Belcher, Haynes Miller, Karen Willcox

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MIT Guided Inquiry/Tutorials On Line Delivery
of Review Tutorials and ComplexProblems in
Science and EngineeringSteven Lerman, John
Belcher, Haynes Miller, Karen Willcox
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Overview

• MITGIT will be built around structured
  educational materials, with self-contained tests
  of student understanding at critical steps in the
  conceptual development of the material.
• The framework will be used to either deliver
  homework problems or tutorials for courses in the
  General Institute Requirements.
• It can be used both for students in those
  freshmen courses as well as for students in upper
  level courses who are seeking to review material
  from foundational courses.

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Implementation

• Our test bed development will be based on the
  courses in which the faculty investigators on
  this proposal are involved (8.02, 18.03, and
  16.060).
• This includes faculty from Physics and
  Mathematics, who are involved in the design and
  delivery of foundational courses.
• And a faculty member from Aeronautics and
  Astronautics who teaches an upper level course
  which relies heavily on material taught in
  foundational courses.

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Features

• Presentation of educational content as a series
  of modules, including text, streaming video, and
  applets.
• Posing a sequence of questions such that correct
  answers at each stage are necessary to proceed to
  later stages.
• A hint/review structure that allows a student to
  ask for hints or access to online review
  resources for a given question.
• A general authoring tool for creating review
  modules and course problems.
• A grading structure that records student
  performance and time spent on individual parts of
  the tutorial or problem and the number of
  hints/reviews requested
• Grade or certification for each student on
  problems/modules.