Why we use it:
Research has shown that the use of these systems offer pedagogical benefits to both the lecturer and the students.
Benefits to the students:
- Encouragement to actively think about the material being presented improving depth of learning and retention time.
- Anonymity provided by the system encourages all to participate.
- Immediate feedback given on their own understanding, as well as the possibility of benchmarking themselves against their peers.
- attending lectures becomes more interesting and fun.
Benefits to the lecturer:
- Can quickly gain a clearer understanding of the level of comprehension in the audience.
- Allows the lecturer to tailor their presentation to meet the unique needs of each audience.
- Encourages attendance for particularly "dry" subjects.
- Facilitates constructive discussion between the students themselves and also between the lecturer and the students.
Additional references:
- Why use e-voting? (video training)
- Creating e-voting questions (video training)
- Delivering an e-voting session (video training)
- Dr. David Lewis' presentation on his own use of e-voting (given at Hands on the Future, 2011)
- Paul Arnold and Dragos Ciobanu's ALT-C 2010 presentation on embedding e-voting into the design of the face-to-face element of a module
- Using e-voting with interactive tablets in face-to-face sessions
- TP Msg. #1083 Multiple-Choice Questions You Wouldn’t Put on a Test: Promoting Deep Learning Using Clickers
- Tomorrow's Professor Msg.#932 General Guidelines for Developing Multiple Choice Items
- A new electronic voting system in lectures is making a real difference - article in Education section of The Independent about several universities that use the interactive voting system (14 February, 2008)
- Why make lectures interactive? by Steve Draper (University of Glasgow) - a brief introduction to the pedagogical reasons for making lectures interactive.
- Do mobile interactive classrooms help academics engage learners, MICHAEL? by Michael McCabe - a humorous look at the benefits of electronic voting (from The Higher Education Academy Newsletter Summer 2004).
- Using classroom communication systems to support interaction and discussion in large class settings by James Boyle & David Nicol - a paper describing the benefits achieved by the innovative use of electronic voting at the University of Strathclyde.
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