Monitoring F2F interactions through attendance control

This work explores the use of interactions between teachers and students as a basis to infer the students´ learning status and generate suitable feedback for them. We propose a system that lets teachers and students register the interactions face to face, so they can be capitalized for improving traditional teaching/ learning. The recorded interactions will be exploited in a similar way to how teachers infer the knowledge status of their students from their interventions. In order to discover the teachers´ strategies and, specially, their necessities regarding the interactions with their students, we have run a questionnaire and verified some previously stated hypotheses. The design of the PresenceClick system is a first result. It has a double aim: to show teachers the knowledge status of their students, so that they can adapt their teaching; and to show students their progresses and the one of the overall class so they can compare them. PresenceClick incorporates an Attendance module, which automatically collects the list of students attending the class with no effort from the teacher. This paper presents the results of this study, the PresenceClick architecture and the Attendance module, as an essential component to help and complete traditional F2F, blended or e-learning scenarios.