Observations On Benefits/Limitations Of An Audience Response System
Stephen Silliman, Leo McWilliams
Abstract
The audience response system (ARS) used in this study integrates fully into existing presentation software and has been applied in a range of settings from high-school presentations, to interrogation of a large freshman engineering class, to guided equation development and case studies in a senior class in groundwater, to assessment of learning objectives and outcomes. The ARS allows real-time feedback to the students, as well as detailed demographic and studentspecific response summaries. Through application in these settings, a number of strengths and weaknesses of the ARS have been identified for use in engineering curricula:
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Presentation (obstetrics)SophisticationStrengths and weaknessesSession (web analytics)Class (philosophy)CurriculumAudience responseComputer scienceMathematics educationInterrogationLecture hallTarget audienceStudent engagementMultimediaPsychologyPedagogyArtificial intelligenceWorld Wide WebSociologyTelecommunicationsMedicineSocial scienceBusinessSocial psychologyRadiologyArchaeologyAdvertisingHistoryEngineering Education and PedagogyExperimental Learning in EngineeringInnovative Teaching Methods