Comparing Activities Useful for Improving Consciousness in Two Modules Applying Blended Learning: ‘AI Technology’ and ‘Artificial Intelligence’

Target subject is a module called ‘AI Technology’, which applied the ideas of blended learning. Firstly, lecture-style teaching was conducted with presentation slides in order to explain the contents of a textbook. Secondly, students were required to do exercises and quizzes. By using the last eight weeks, they were asked to create presentation slides outside a class to introduce the up-to-date topics on artificial intelligence. These slides were mutually evaluated among them so that they developed their own slides based on the feedback before the tenth week of the course for the second round of mutual evaluations. Improving consciousness of a module is meaningful. To know the reasons is more significant. For such occasions activities useful for improving consciousness of a module in ‘AI Technology’ are found. Then it is compared with my previous research outcome of the module, ‘Artificial Intelligence’. Students are categorized into four groups with degree scales of consciousness by principal component analysis. This paper reports their results.