Active learning: engaging students in the classroom using mobile phones
Audience Response Systems (ARS) are used to achieve active learning in lectures and large group environments by facilitating interaction between the presenter and the audience. However, their use is discouraged by the requirement for specialist infrastructure in the lecture theatre and management of...
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| author | Ayu, Media Anugerah Taylor, Ken Mantoro, Teddy |
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| description | Audience Response Systems (ARS) are used to achieve active learning in lectures and large group environments by facilitating interaction between the presenter and the audience. However, their use is discouraged by the requirement for specialist infrastructure in the lecture theatre and management of the expensive clickers they use. We improve the ARS by removing the need for specialist infrastructure, by using mobile phones instead of clickers, and by providing a web based interface in the familiar Wikipedia style. Responders usually vote by dialing and this has been configured to be cost free in most cases. The desirability of this approach is shown by the use the demonstration system has had with 21,000 voters voting 92,000 times in 14,000 surveys to date. |
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| spelling | iium-46202011-09-27T01:28:32Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/4620/ Active learning: engaging students in the classroom using mobile phones Ayu, Media Anugerah Taylor, Ken Mantoro, Teddy T Technology (General) Audience Response Systems (ARS) are used to achieve active learning in lectures and large group environments by facilitating interaction between the presenter and the audience. However, their use is discouraged by the requirement for specialist infrastructure in the lecture theatre and management of the expensive clickers they use. We improve the ARS by removing the need for specialist infrastructure, by using mobile phones instead of clickers, and by providing a web based interface in the familiar Wikipedia style. Responders usually vote by dialing and this has been configured to be cost free in most cases. The desirability of this approach is shown by the use the demonstration system has had with 21,000 voters voting 92,000 times in 14,000 surveys to date. 2009 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/4620/1/ActiveLearning_05356379.pdf Ayu, Media Anugerah and Taylor, Ken and Mantoro, Teddy (2009) Active learning: engaging students in the classroom using mobile phones. In: IEEE Symposium on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ISIEA 2009), 4 - 6 October, 2009, Kuala Lumpur. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISIEA.2009.5356379 doi:10.1109/ISIEA.2009.5356379 |
| spellingShingle | T Technology (General) Ayu, Media Anugerah Taylor, Ken Mantoro, Teddy Active learning: engaging students in the classroom using mobile phones |
| title | Active learning: engaging students in the classroom using mobile phones |
| title_full | Active learning: engaging students in the classroom using mobile phones |
| title_fullStr | Active learning: engaging students in the classroom using mobile phones |
| title_full_unstemmed | Active learning: engaging students in the classroom using mobile phones |
| title_short | Active learning: engaging students in the classroom using mobile phones |
| title_sort | active learning: engaging students in the classroom using mobile phones |
| topic | T Technology (General) |
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