Abstract
Traditional lectures have poorer outcomes compared to active learning methodologies, yet many natural language processing classes in higher education still follow this outdated methodology. In this paper, we present, co-creational teaching, a methodology that encourages partnership between staff and lecturers and show how this can be applied to teach natural language processing. As a fast-moving and dynamic area of study with high interest from students, natural language processing is an ideal subject for innovative teaching methodologies to improve student outcomes. We detail our experience with teaching natural language processing through partnership with students and provide detailed descriptions of methodologies that can be used by others in their teaching, including considerations of diverse student populations.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.teachingnlp-1.5
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Teaching NLP
- Month:
- August
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Bangkok, Thailand
- Editors:
- Sana Al-azzawi, Laura Biester, György Kovács, Ana Marasović, Leena Mathur, Margot Mieskes, Leonie Weissweiler
- Venues:
- TeachingNLP | WS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 33–42
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.teachingnlp-1.5
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- John McCrae. 2024. Co-Creational Teaching of Natural Language Processing. In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Teaching NLP, pages 33–42, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Co-Creational Teaching of Natural Language Processing (McCrae, TeachingNLP-WS 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2024.teachingnlp-1.5.pdf