This presentation is part of an Engineering Subject Centre Online Seminar about the role of audience response systems in education. I was one of the invited speakers - see http://www.engsc.ac.uk/nef/events/onlineseries/evsseminar.asp If you want to the presentation with audio as an avi then see - http://www.bath.ac.uk/lmf/download/24053

1. A role for audience response systems in supporting student learning Online Seminar: Engineering Subject Centre, 12 th Nov 08 Andy Ramsden Head of e-Learning University of Bath [email_address] eatbath-present andyramsden The presentation as a powerpoint

7. Principle 7: provides information to teachers that can be sued to help shape the teaching “ Assessors learn about the extent to which they [students] have developed expertise and can tailor their teaching accordingly” Yorke (2003), Formative assessment in Higher Education “… the benefits of coupling questions around themes. In doing so the students’ real understanding can be explored. A review of the results from the coupled questions suggest many students will struggle with some fundamental concepts” Mark Russell (2008), Using an electronic voting system to enhance learning and teaching

8. Using SMS for formative feedback in large group teaching Limitation of ARS – tend to be objective questions. Scenario: Ask a question, request that students txt you the response. Open up the SMS text Web Service and read the responses, analyse via a word cloud or transfer the responses to the discussion board.

9. Thank you Andy Ramsden Head of e-Learning University of Bath [email_address] eatbath-present andyramsden