Smartphone+ Teaching mode: Practice of Surveying Course Delivery for Undergraduates based onthe RainClassroom
Weifang YANG, Guanjun WEI, Wei LI, Haowen YAN and Yuzhao LI
Traditional teaching modes or tools, e.g.blackboards, slides and the Internet, play leading roles in university teachingin past decades and nowadays. Nevertheless, common use of We-Media and other information communication techniques, especially popularityof smartphones, has made the appearance of new teaching modes and tools possible. Meanwhile, university instructors and students are also eager to seemore efficient teaching and learning tools. Under such a background, this paper proposesa new teaching mode named"smartphone+" which is an integration of the traditional teaching tools and smartphonesand can be realized using smartphone-based APPs.A practice of the smartphone+ teaching mode has been implemented in surveying course for the undergraduates majoring in Geomatics in Lanzhou Jiaotong University. The APP used in the practice isthe Rain Classroom. The practice has shown that the Rain Classroom-based smartphone+ teaching mode is efficient. It isa valuable supplementto traditional teaching modes. It hasa number of advantages that the traditional teaching modes do not have in teaching surveyingcourse, including its online quizzes and tests, real time assessments, quick interaction,before-class preview and after-class online assessments.
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