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Applying Cooperative Learning to
Self-Learning & Testing：
A Case Study on Subject of
Introduction to Computer
CHIEN, SHIH-YU
Department of Electronic Engineering
Southern Taiwan University of Science
and Technology
Tainan, Taiwan
Topics：
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Speaker Introduction.
Background.
My teaching project.
What’s Next?
Summary
Speaker Introduction
Zhiguang civil service exam cram
school teacher for 5 years, teach
subject of Introduction to Computer
& Database .
 Being an civil service exam cram
school teacher, my major concern is
how to help my students pass the
exam as soon as possible.
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Background
What happens to Taiwan’s HighTech employees ?
 What is civil service exam ?
 Features of the exam on
Introduction to Computer.
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What happens to High-Tech
employees?－Wun-Hong’s Case.
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CHIEN WUN-HONG, my student.
Work experiences： AU Optronics &
Innolux Corps；Big company with high
salary, NT$ 1,400,000 per year.
Why Wun-Hong resigns and try
to take the civil service exam?
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Is being public official attractive?
– He has to resign and prepare for the exam.
– Salary is low, NT$ 700,000 per year.
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Major cause: Working overtime
– Go to work at 6:30 am, back at 10:00 pm.
– Can’t turn-off cellular phone to make sure the
machine is always on.
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All he wants: Go to work and back ON TIME.
What is civil service exam?
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The most general way to be a public
official.
The advantages of a public official:
– High level of job security.
– Go to work and back ON TIME.
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Some times, an employee of stateown enterprise, for example Taiwan
Power Company, is considered as a
public official.
Features of the exam on
Introduction to Computer.
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A common subject for technical
background examinee.
Various domain knowledge in
information technology and electronic
engineering.
A heavy burden to many examinee.
My teaching project
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Features of my students.
How the teaching is conducted?
Cooperative Learning with a Facebook
closed group.
Brief introduction of my
students
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Higher educated with information
technology or electronic engineering
background.
Geographically distributed, ages from
20～50, and have strong learning
motivation.
How the teaching is
conducted?
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Students are scattered nationwide.
The course is conducted via in-class
and video teaching.
For better learning effect, an auxiliary
learning mechanism to answer
questions from students is necessary.
Paradigm shift: From
Centralized to Distributed
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Centralized: Client-Server model.
– By email or face to face after school.
– A heavy burden to many teachers.
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Distributed: P2P model.
– By social networking services, such as Facebook.
– Learn from each other, Cooperative learning.
– Teacher’s role, shifts from answering questions
to facilitating discussion and giving hands to
individual just in time.
Cooperative Learning with a
Facebook closed group
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General conditions:
– Post their problems in the group.
– Generally, students share learning
experiences with each other, and both
asker and respondent benefits.
– Teacher intervenes, if no one responds.
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Individual needs:
– Some times, they needs individual help.
– Chat with them via Facebook message.
Cooperative Learning with
Facebook, for General
Cooperative Learning with
Facebook, for General(cont.)
Cooperative Learning with
Facebook, for Individual
Cooperative Learning with
Facebook, Individual(cont.)
What’s Next?
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GUO,FANG-JYUN, one of my students,
suggests an adaptive learning
diagnose system with intelligent online test is what they really need.
Key points of the system:
– Analysis of the test banks, we can grasp
the domain knowledge for specific test.
– Analysis of the learning state, students
can learn more efficiently.
Summary
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Facebook closed group is easy, but I
believe the simplest method is always
the most feasible method.
Digitize all my documents with a
consistent format is time consuming,
but it is essential for e-learning and
return on investment is high.
Q&A
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