ACTIVELECTURE – BRINGING COLLEGE PROFESSORS TOGETHER WITH 21 ST CENTURY STUDENTS Julio Fredes,...

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ACTIVELECTURE – BRINGING COLLEGE PROFESSORS TOGETHER WITH 21 ST CENTURY STUDENTS Julio Fredes, Luis Quintero, Spencer Stroebel, Jeff Yang

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ACTIVELECTURE – BRINGING COLLEGE PROFESSORS TOGETHER WITH 21ST CENTURY STUDENTS

Julio Fredes, Luis Quintero, Spencer Stroebel, Jeff Yang

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THE PRO

BLEMThe Problem

• Students don’t pay attention in large lectures

• Technology further distracts students • Professors frustrated with use of

laptops, tablets, and cell phones in class

• Disconnect between college professors and 21st century student

• Why not take advantage of technology (and the internet) to improve the student experience?

This happens too frequently…

Use Technology to Improve Class

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WELCO

ME PAG

EIntroducing ActiveLecture

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HO

ME PAG

EHome Page Description

• Courses enrolled in either as student or moderator listed on the right

• Brief site description• Daily Princetonian’s top 2 stories (for

use before class!)

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COU

RSE HO

ME

Course Page

• For students: links to all available lectures• For moderators: link to add a lecture, edit or delete a lecture currently in the system

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ADD

LECTURE

Add Lecture Page

• Add title name, description, and upload the file.

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LECTURE PAG

ELecture Page (part 1) Lecture Page (part 2)

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FEATURES

Lecture Page Features

• Lecture name• Lecture description• Lecture notes/slides: In .pdf format without opening separate window or tab• Poll/quiz: Questions/polls that the moderator has put up. Can either be “open”,

“closed”, or “hidden”• Comments and Question Feed: Comments and questions from students. Uses “Like”

button to display the most popular topics at the top, connecting students and professors

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ADM

INISTRATIVE TASKS

Account Page

• View grades• Change password

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BUSIN

ESS MO

DEL

Business Model

• ActiveLecture is not a platform designed to compete with Blackboard• Aims to increase attendance, attention, and participation in big lectures• Helps professors identify areas that need to be explained again or stressed more

• Uses “Like” button to do this• Establish relationships with higher education institutions

• License the product on a per-student basis• Virtually no expenses – very profitable

• Expenses include: hosting/server space, marketing, and part-time webmaster

INCOME# of institutions 5Avg. number of courses enrolled 10Avg. number of students/course 200Price per student $5 TOTAL INCOME $50,000

COSTSHosting/Server $1,000 Marketing $5,000 Part-time web-master $10,000

NET PROFIT $40,000