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“Welcome to class; please turn on your mobile phones”: Engaging with students in large classes using a mobile-phone-based Classroom Response System
2011 Learning & Teaching Week Program and Abstracts Book, p.17
Learning & Teaching Week, 2011 (Sunshine Coast, Australia, 19-Sep-2011–23-Sep-2011)
University of the Sunshine Coast
2011
Abstract
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.
Details
- Title
- “Welcome to class; please turn on your mobile phones”: Engaging with students in large classes using a mobile-phone-based Classroom Response System
- Authors
- Peter K Dunn (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health and EducationAlice Richardson (Author) - University of CanberraChristine McDonald (Author) - University of Southern QueenslandFlorin I Oprescu (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast
- Publication details
- 2011 Learning & Teaching Week Program and Abstracts Book, p.17
- Conference details
- Learning & Teaching Week, 2011 (Sunshine Coast, Australia, 19-Sep-2011–23-Sep-2011)
- Publisher
- University of the Sunshine Coast
- Date published
- 2011
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Health and Sport Sciences - Legacy; School of Science, Technology and Engineering; Engage Research Lab; School of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Legacy; School of Health - Public Health
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450071002621
- Output Type
- Conference presentation
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