K^mAlive: In-Class Activity Support System
For instructors to capture and monitor real-time individual contributions of students
Value-Proposition of ‘K^mAlive’ – In-Class Learning Support System
- To monitor individual learners’ participation and contributions real-time in class
- Able to access contributions real-time via assessment rubrics
- Inclusion of data analytics which enables extraction of useful students’ performance information
Challenges Tackled
- Inability to monitor and access students’ individual participation and contribution objectively real-time in class
- Increased confusion, time-consuming, exhausting and causing frustrations to instructors to remember the contributions by individual students
Value Proposition of K^mAlive
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1. When the instructor and students log in to the online system, the instructor will appear on the left hand side and the learners’ profiles on the right
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2. When the instructor clicks on the ‘Ask question’
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3. Students respond to the question posed
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4. Instructor performs a real-time grading on the response to the question posed with an easy, user-friendly and customised assessment rubrics
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Feedback from Students
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Encourages Participation
“It makes class participation less intimidating than having to raise your hand in real life”
“Allow students who are more quiet a chance to speak”
“There is a confirmation that my participation is acknowledged”
Objective, Fair, and Accurate Assessment
“It is effective in the measurement of contributions and helps reduce selectivity”
“It provides a fair assessment”
“It is a fair and objective method”
Enhance Critical Thinking
“Allows you to think on the spot even for a question, topic you are not so clear about”
“By attentively listening to my classmates’ contributions, I began to carefully analyse my thoughts and perspectives”
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KumaLive – Authentic and Innovative Learning Intervention
KumaLive – Operational Guide