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
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
2. When the instructor clicks on the ‘Ask question’
3. Students respond to the question posed
4. Instructor performs a real-time grading on the response to the question posed with an easy, user-friendly and customised assessment rubrics
Feedback from Students
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”
KumaLive – Authentic and Innovative Learning Intervention
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