D. Muravskii successfully introduces interactive tools into the fabric of training courses

Associate Professor of the Department of Management at the Institute of Business and Business Administration (IBDA) of the RANEPA, winner of the All-Academic Competition of the Best Practices of the RANEPA 2019 in the nomination "Interactive Technologies in Education (implemented projects)" Daniil Muravskii shares his know-how on the use of interactive tools to increase the effectiveness of teaching.

In the annual VII General Academic Competition of the best practices of the Presidential Academy, organized by the Institute for Organizational Development and Strategic Initiatives (IORSI) of the RANEPA, 132 project applications from 23 branches of the Academy and structural divisions of the Moscow campus were submitted and considered. 94 projects took part in the correspondence examination, and at the final events in the face-to-face defense mode, 22 projects were presented to the expert jury in the nominations for the thematic blocks “implemented projects” and “project ideas”. Associate Professor of the Department of Management Daniil Muravskii presented the project "Implementation of interactive technologies for teaching the analysis of the market of "green technologies", with which he won in the nomination "Interactive technologies in education (implemented projects)".

The winner of the competition said that the use of interactive technologies in teaching is often perceived one-sidedly - as a way to involve students in completing assignments and studying course materials. However, there is much more behind this practice - the ability to quickly collect feedback. Without waiting for the results of the analysis of questionnaires, in which students traditionally evaluate the teacher and the usefulness of the course at the end of the year, teachers have the opportunity to effectively communicate even with a large audience in live mode during the learning process.

“It's no secret that in order to successfully involve students in the study of an educational course, it is necessary to select tools for the characteristics of each of the groups,” says Daniil Muravskii. Business communications or presentation training that has been successfully integrated into listeners' habits over the past five years may, at one unexpected moment, simply stop producing results. “This can happen due to generational characteristics of perception, a specific atmosphere in the group of students or external factors, for example, changes in workload in other subjects,” explains Associate Professor of the IBDA RANEPA. He also emphasizes that the most dangerous thing in such situations is that you can miss the moment when the gap in knowledge begins to form. The same teacher rarely teaches the same stream of students every semester or even every year. The difference in the knowledge and skills of students will be noticed by other specialists, who will find it even more difficult to find its source.

To improve the effectiveness of teaching, Daniil Muravsky recommends using modern technologies. Among the best examples for quickly identifying potential problems and perceptions of each group of new students, the RANEPA expert singled out Mentimeter.com and Plickers.com, as well as the integration of watching video cartoons as a load for student self-study. “In Russia and, in particular, by Skolkovo University specialists, these technologies are often positioned as innovative, although many universities around the world, including the RANEPA, have been actively using them for many years,” Daniil Muravskii emphasized. All of the designated tools have a wide range of free features that you can use without having to pay for the full version. However, although all of these programs support the Russian language, a basic knowledge of English is required to use them.

Mentimeter.com allows you to implement audience surveys very quickly and beautifully. By registering and choosing one of the most attractive templates, you can quickly create any kind of survey. The survey is assigned a specific number which, by entering it on menti.com, any student in the classroom or remotely will be able to view and participate. The most convenient thing in the application is the display of the survey results in the form you specified in live mode. This turns the voting process into a kind of game and better stimulates discussion of the results. “I use this tool in the first lesson of almost every course and at key points throughout the semester,” says Daniil Muravskii. – This allows you to identify audience expectations from the course, understanding of basic concepts (for example, “what is marketing?”, “What does market analysis include?”), With which they come to class, as well as to obtain a subjective assessment of the interestingness and usefulness of various course tasks ". The results can be downloaded from the site as slides with a single click. By storing the voting results of different years, you can compare them and understand how best to modify the course for a specific audience.

The Plickers.com service allows you to conduct surveys or even tests without using mobile devices and with the ability to track each response of a particular listener. This technology is very similar to Mentimeter, but only the teacher needs to have a phone to use it. After creating a survey, the tool allows you to generate unique sheets (usually A4) with unique codes on each of the 4 sides. The student chooses 1 of the four answer options, turns the pre-printed sheet over to the appropriate side, raises it above his head, and the teacher, using the smartphone camera, simultaneously reads the answers from all the sheets of students. As a result, the teacher instantly receives a report on the answer option chosen by each student. This sheet is relevant throughout the course. This tool can also be used to effectively classify students into groups based on their interests, preferences, and knowledge.

The last technology that Daniil Muravskii recommends using is the creation of video cartoons. A few years ago, for the course "Analysis of International Markets", he translated all the main materials of his lectures into 5-10-minute cartoons using the animaker.com platform. “Very quickly, I realized that this is an amazingly convenient way to understand how the audience understands the material,” shared his experience, Associate Professor of the IBDA RANEPA. The number of videos watched to the end and revised, an analysis of in what connection and after which topics it becomes necessary to revise earlier videos, at what time point (rate, week and time of day) this happens - all this provides a huge array of information that allows quickly adapt to the characteristics of the students, understand what topics should be raised again on the course and how.

The course "Analysis of international markets" brought Daniil Muravskii two awards at once - the title of champion in the field of teaching responsible management in 2018 from the international association CEEMAN, as well as the winner of the All-Academic Competition of the Best Practices of the RANEPA - 2019. “This was not due to the use of interactive technologies, and thanks to the fact that due to these technologies it was possible to significantly increase the effectiveness of teaching,” the expert emphasizes. Such tools, contrary to popular belief, are needed not by students to entertain them during boring classes, Daniil Muravskii adds, but, first of all, by teachers in order to become better at their job and hear the audience better.

Presentation by Daniil Murovskii "Introduction of interactive technologies for training in market analysis of "green" technologies".

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