Using Branching Scenario Videos to Introduce How to Write Lab Report
Teacher Introduction
Dr Qiuchen Dong
Dr Qiuchen Dong is currently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry with a research focus on gas sensing, microfluidic-based chemical sensor, electrochemical sensor and metal-organic-framework based nanomaterials sensors. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in 2019 and had researched proton-transfer-reaction Mass Spectrometry (PTR-MS) in the University of Minnesota from 2019-2021. He has also developed research collaboration with a listed company for Vector-borne disease detection and attracted 250,000 RMB. In parallel, Qiuchen is collaborating widely with ILEAD and EDU department to explore pedagogical innovation teaching and evolve in these teaching methods to provide students with a better experience at XJTLU.
Key points
- The H5P Learning Mall platform has enabled embedding in a course module.
- Student-centred teaching activity has enabled the students to participate and learn.
- Easy to expand to the future cohort of students.
- Potential to attract more volunteer students in building such an activity.
- Technology-assisted pedagogical teaching innovation.
Case Details
I have collaborated with Educational developer, Alan Meek, for developing a “Branching Pods”, which aggregates students’ questions to the module CHE 115 Laboratory Technique and made a series of connected video with two Chemistry Senior Students, Shao-Chi Wu and Minxiao Li. This created H5P video has enabled the students to pick one of their questions from the list and go into the related page for detailed answering with example provided. This was inspired by Alan’s idea in providing School of Science staff a technology-assisted platform in pedagogical teaching.
Almost all students have participated into the video from the log book of their activities. We have also carried out a survey and found out that some student indeed fancy about it, which has helped their lab report writing.
The students’ feedback to the module is the key to advance the module in a more approaching way so that the students can actually learn from the class or activities assigned to them, rather than taking time to submit without digesting anything.
You are encouraged to provide an atmosphere that students are willing to talk and speak to you, especially considering the personalities, cultural influence, mind setting in mainland China. Only when your students are not afraid of you, they can behave intelligently and openly to you and to the learning process.
Overview
Dr Qiuchen Dong, along with educational developer, Alan Meek, and Dr Shane Yannick Lo Fan Hin has developed a H5P-based learning mall activity that enables the students to virtually explore and ask questions on the platform with innovatively created “Branching Pods”.
Branching Pods aggregates the past-asked questions from different cohorts of students. And we have asked two senior students to ask these different questions and followed with a detailed guidelines on how to addressing these different questions regarding the lab report writing, structure, languages and references, etc. in an interactive video. This has enabled the students to learn before and after the class, so that they can have additional official resources to address their questions.