Audience Response Systems (ARS) Nitin Parmar Learning Technologist [ Wednesday 1 October 2008 ] QR code for the presentation slides

The refreshments today were… Excellent Good Average Poor Did not eat Abstain

Excellent

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Have you heard of Audience Response Systems (ARS) previously? Yes No

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Allows students to participate actively in lectures, seminars, tutorials and labs Allows for immediate submission of responses to questions Responses viewed as a graph Data saved for later analysis by reporting tool Audience Response Systems (ARS)

Allows students to participate actively in lectures, seminars, tutorials and labs

Allows for immediate submission of responses to questions

Responses viewed as a graph

Data saved for later analysis by reporting tool

e-Learning staff development sessions, for example, “An Introduction to Moodle” Used as an icebreaker to gauge areas of participant interest Case Study – e-Learning Team

e-Learning staff development sessions, for example, “An Introduction to Moodle”

Used as an icebreaker to gauge areas of participant interest

Thermal Physics module Used in first lecture to survey students’ prior knowledge Used in the last lecture to assess how well students had grasped the main concepts Case Study – University of Leeds [ http://www.sddu.leeds.ac.uk/online_resources/evoting/ ]

Thermal Physics module

Used in first lecture to survey students’ prior knowledge

Used in the last lecture to assess how well students had grasped the main concepts

Set of 200 clickers and 5 USB receivers - bought with e-Learning TQEF money To book the Audience Response System [email_address] Hardware

Set of 200 clickers and 5 USB receivers - bought with e-Learning TQEF money

To book the Audience Response System

[email_address]

For one-to-one support, departmental presentations or training sessions [email_address] Project information http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/ARS/ Support

For one-to-one support, departmental presentations or training sessions

[email_address]

Project information

http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/ARS/

Gauging reaction I’m impressed by the ARS and want to use it right away I like the ARS but still need some convincing before I use it I can’t see a use for the technology at the moment but remain interested I’m not interested at all

I’m impressed by the ARS and want to use it right away

I like the ARS but still need some convincing before I use it

I can’t see a use for the technology at the moment but remain interested

I’m not interested at all

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