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October 25, 2005, 09:03 AM ET
Entertaining While Teaching
The annual League for Innovation in the Community College conference on information technology has drawn 2,300 participants to Dallas this week. The conference largely attracts faculty members, and sessions focus on trends in emerging technology, teaching and learning, work-force partnerships, and leadership development, among other areas. A number of the conference sessions are focused on using entertainment and interactivity to engage students—particularly those who are taking online courses—in the learning process.
In one session on Monday, for example, two lawyers at Sinclair Community College, in Ohio, told how the college designed and produced an eight-episode soap opera to teach students about consumer law. In another session, instructors from Cedar Valley College, in Texas, described how they used the game show Jeopardy in their classes to motivate students. And an assistant professor from Edison College, in Florida, talked about how computer games can reinforce learning.
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