JUST-IN-TIME TEACHING (JiTT)
CILA Faculty Conversation
Tuesday, April 15
3:15 - 4:45 p.m., Buntrock 142
Rick Goedde, Economics
Debbie Engelen-Eigles, Sociology and Anthropology
Matt Richey, Mathematics
co-sponsored by IIT
JiTT is a teaching and learning strategy designed to provide instructors with timely information about what and how their students are learning. In this session, faculty discuss their experiences implementing this system in their courses at St. Olaf.
JiTT comprises two elements: classroom activities that promote active learning and World Wide Web resources that are used to enhance the classroom component. Web-based preparatory assignments are due electronically a few hours before class.The instructor adjusts theclassroom lesson in response to the student submissions. Consequently, classroom activities are more efficient and closely tuned to students' needs. St. Olaf faculty are working with IIT to try different types of software that facilitate JiTT and minimize the workload for the instructor. See:<http://webphysics.iupui.edu/jitt/jitt.html> for additional information about JiTT.
