TeamTeachingViz: Benefits, Challenges, and Ethical Considerations of Using a Multimodal Analytics Dashboard to Support Team Teaching Reflection

Abstract

Team teaching in higher education can be challenging, especially for educators managing large classes with limited pedagogical training and few opportunities to reflect on their practices. Emerging sensing technologies and analytics can capture and analyse patterns of collaboration, communication, and movement of team teaching. Yet, few studies have presented these data to educators for reflection. To address this gap, we examine the benefits, challenges, and concerns of presenting multimodal teaching data (positional, audio, and spatial pedagogy observations) to educators via the TeamTeachingViz dashboard. We evaluated TeamTeachingViz in an authentic classroom context where educators explored their own data and team teaching strategies. Multimodal data was collected from 36 in-the-wild classroom sessions involving 12 educators grouped in various combinations over 4 weeks, followed by semi-structured interviews to reflect on their practices. Findings suggest that educators improved their self-awareness by using data-driven insights to understand their movements and interactions, enabling continuous improvement in team teaching. However, they noted the need for additional data, such as student behaviours and speech content, to better contextualise these insights.