An Interactive Learning Environment (ILE) can create better learning opportunities and improve the education experience when applied. In this article, we'll go over the benefits of having an interactive environment and provide tips on how you can create one in your own classroom. In the end, we'll discuss three ways to make sure students know who did what and make them want to participate.
Data science is all about exploring data from an object, conducting statistical analyses, and then being able to summarize the results in a meaningful way. Jupyter notebooks can help students perform these processes easier because they can keep everything in one document rather than switching between several documents.
IllumiDesk is an interactive environment that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations, and explanatory text. Jupyter notebooks can incorporate markdown elements, allowing you to easily create readable reports that include equations and rich media.
Auto-grading tools pair with Jupyter notebooks to make grading homework assignments easier for teachers and students. Such tools can also help students identify where they need to improve and help them practice answering questions like those they will be asked on the actual exam.
With IllumiDesk, you can make grading less time-consuming for teachers, who can use it to set auto-grader tests. This way, students will know which problems they need to focus on before the actual exam.
Every year, teachers worldwide struggle with a problem: How can we engage our students and make them stay motivated? It's a common dilemma, but it doesn't have to be that way. Instead of trying to find new ways to entertain your class, why not make learning itself more interesting by turning your classroom into an interactive environment?
Maxwell, D., Meyer, S. and Bolch, C.A. (2021) “DataStoryTM: an interactive sequential art approach for data science and artificial intelligence learning experiences,” Innovation and Education, 3(1). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1186/s42862-021-00015-x.