After testing the Wooclap platform for two years, Arts et Métiers make it available to all its teachers, with a view to pushing the boundaries of educational innovation and empowering students to take control of their own learning.
As part of its BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) educational project, Arts et Métiers an interactive application available to all its teachers. The concept: the teacher asks a question in the lecture hall, and students send their answers via their smartphones, tablets, or laptops! The goal: to get students actively involved and make classes more interactive, use in-class feedback techniques (TRC), and enable teachers to evaluate their teaching.
Teachers at the engineering school have been using the platform for two years. The very positive feedback and growing demand from teachers and students to be able to use Wooclap in the classroom convinced the management to extend access to the platform to all its teachers.
Cécile Pichon, an educational engineerArts et Métiers, says that Wooclap allows teachers to gauge students' understanding in real time and adapt their explanations accordingly. The platform also helps to energize classes and capture students' attention, which, according to studies, declines sharply after 10 minutes. Thanks to Wooclap and its competition mode, classes are more interactive.
A few questions at the beginning of the class allow students to check that they have fully understood the previous lesson, as well as providing a transition to start the new session. During the lesson, questions are asked from time to time to stimulate discussion between the teacher and students or among the students themselves.
Marc Lassagne, Senior Lecturer in Management Sciences at Arts et Métiers, sums up the situation as follows:
To summarize the benefits of TRCs, we can say that they improve student learning and the classroom atmosphere, they give teachers real pleasure in renewing their teaching practices, and they are ultimately easy to implement.
According to him, "student acceptance of these devices undoubtedly played a major role in facilitating the implementation of this interactivity in the classroom."
Regarding Wooclap, Arts et Métiers that the platform is“user-friendly and very easy to use.”
