Tablet PC’s in Distance Learning (DL) at Georgia Tech Savannah
This video shows how Tablet PCs and Dyknow software are used to facilitate a showdown of academic prowess in a distributed learning environment affiliated with the Savannah campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology (GT-S). In this circumstance, students belonging to the Georgia Institute of Technology are placed regionally in the state. One group of students is located in a classroom on the GT-S campus (in Savannah, GA) while another group of students are connected via video-conference from a room at Georgia Southern University (in Statesboro, GA). The video shows interviews with the students regarding how the use of Tablet PCs has impacted their learning experiences in this distributed setting as well as a competition between the two sites in regards to which group of students can answer the most questions in a quiz bowl for extra course credit. The students use the Tablet PCs to write their answers on the computer and then are able to submit their answers to the professor via a panel management system in a software utility called Dyknow. This project was made possible through funding from HP and Microsoft.