In your first lecture, LT1 is nearly full. Hundreds of students are looking at you, waiting to learn from you. But how can you possibly engage with so many students all at once? How can you give quick and constructive feedback to students in this environment? How can you avoid the “stand-and-deliver” lecture? Can you do something that the students will value, and is actually helpful to their learning? Ah, easy. “Welcome to class, “ you say. “Please turn on your mobile phone.” Classroom Response Systems (CRS) have been available for some time, with encouraging results for student learning outcomes (see Kay and LeSage, 2009; Barnett, 2006). Most CRS use dedicated devices (often called `clickers’) that can be costly. Recently, some textbook publishers have developed CRS that enable students to use their mobile phones as voting devices (such as Wiley’s ClickOn system: http://clickon.johnwiley.com.au/), but are tied to that publisher. In this presentation, we discuss using a mobile-phone-based CRS that is free to use, free to implement, and is not tied to any textbook publisher. We briefly report on the encouraging results of using this CRS at USC, and the results of an online student survey evaluating the CRS.
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2011 Learning & Teaching Week: The Learning Journey, Sunshine Coast, Australia 19-23 September 2011
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2011 Learning & Teaching Week Program and Abstracts Book / pp.17
2011 Learning & Teaching Week
“Welcome to class; please turn on your mobile phones”: Engaging with students in large classes using a mobile-phone-based Classroom Response System
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