Faculty participate to the training sessions on the implementation of active learning in engineering classrooms. The hands-on active learning training is designed following the active learning adoption framework. The training sessions include the theoretical background on active learning, examples and indicators in engineering classrooms, and hands-on activities and discussions.

Instructors' active learning facilitation strategies are tracked by measuring changes in classroom activities through behavioral indicators. We use EduSense to track instructors’ facilitation behaviors. We deployed EduSense on our physical server to capture the behavioral indicators associated with instructors’ facilitation of active learning strategies.

We are using EduSense’s customized classifiers: Sit vs stand, hand raises, student vs instructor speech, and speech act delimiting. These behavioral indicators are used as evidences for instructors’ implementation of active learning facilitation strategies in classrooms.

Once faculty complete their teaching sessions, they are presented with the classroom analytics on the feedback dashboard that is designed for this project. The automated feedback illustrates the visual representation of behavioral indicators from the classroom in connection with the active learning facilitation strategies.

Changes in-class activity, student participation through hand raises, body positions, movement patterns, and the frequency and duration of instructor vs. student talk are displayed on the feedback dashboard at the end of each session.

The prompts on the feedback dashboard are used to promote instructors’ reflective practice to gain a better overview of the in-class activities, reflect on their facilitation strategies, and address pedagogical changes in their next sessions.