Interactive lectures: Clickers or personal devices?

ABSTRACT: Audience response systems ('clickers') are frequently used to promote participation in large lecture classes, and evidence suggests that they convey a number of benefits to students, including improved academic performance and student satisfaction. The limitations of these systems (such as limited access and cost) can be overcome using students' personal electronic devices, such as mobile phones, tablets and laptops together with text message, web- or app-based polling systems. Using questionnaires, we compare student perceptions of clicker and smartphone based polling systems. We find that students prefer interactive lectures generally, but those that used their own device preferred those lectures over lectures using clickers. However, device users were more likely to report using their d

SUBMITTER: Morrell LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4648207 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature