"In 2017, we'll be elevating the voices of local artists through our platform, by working with guest curators to activate the museum with temporary installations, performances, discussions, skill-shares, and more".
The discussion skill of a student is evaluated using the score calculated by the following processes.
For the discussion skill score calculation, the presenter's cases are excluded by start-up and follow-up statements of the students.
It can also be confirmed that the discussion skill is improved by making high quality statements, that is, a lot of agreements obtained from many participants.
It is then possible that these data be a basis to improve a student's discussion skills.
Although both collaborative use of the system under teacher guidance and the lecture based activities significantly helped their students to develop knowledge of the learning unit, the lecture based activities helped to develop better scientific discussion skills.
Since our main mission is to train students' discussion skills, the previous system was extended and new functions were added in order to obtain user-specific data such as the quality of statements and level of understanding the discussions, which led to the creation of the Leaders' Saloon (Section 'Leaders' Saloon: a new physical-digital learning environment').
When the system is used in the mode of a peer collaboration supported by a teacher (compared to individual use without a teacher support), it helps students to make progress in terms of both scientific discussion skills and knowledge of the learning units accommodated in the platform.
The Women in the Arts event, presented by the MOCA fundraising arm the MOCA Projects Council, is a benefit for MOCA's educational programs, such as its Contemporary Art Start, which aims to develop creative thinking and discussion skills among third- through 12th-graders in L.A. County.
They felt they had time for discussion and that they developed their discussion skills.
They used the discussion skills acquired in the course and felt they had grown personally.
