Title: Koto-tsukuri: Education at the Interface
Stream: Teaching Experiences, Pedagogy, Practice & Praxis
Presentation Type: Workshop Presentation
Authors:
Ian Frank, Future University Hakodate, Japan
Abstract:
The move to online was a serious disruptor. We reflect here on almost three years' of fully online educational work at university level in a science-based curriculum in Japan. Presented as a workshop, participants experience a real-time deployment of a class management system put together with low code tools. Participants log in, interact, and see an automatically generated dashboard that visualises the workshop's progress. The technology is one kind of "interface". A second and more important "interface" is the motivation behind the approach. The full paper describes how a move to online classes based on the presented low code system increased student-student and teacher-student interactions and also the interaction of both student and teachers with the learning environment. We discuss how the Japanese concept of "koto-tsukuri" was part of the motivation and framing of the work. The full paper also presents evidence showing a significant increase in student satisfaction corresponding to the introduction of these ideas. This is done using data from a university-wide assessment tool that asks students to identify identify all classes that are in the top 10 percent of those they have ever taken. The average rating based on this instrument increased around threefold between 2019 and 2022. For the workshop, participants should come prepared to think, to interact, and to physically do a few things.
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