A presentation assessing the pros and cons of two audience response systems; Kahoot and Mentimeter.

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Using
audience response systems
for
engagement and feedback
June 2017David Biggins

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Contents
MentimeterKahoot
TEL Toolkit
Digital Skills
Links
Introduction
Engagement
Context
Alternatives

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Introduction
• Welcome to this 30
minute, hands-on
session on audience
response systems
• Have your internet
devices to hand
• Aim is to give you
experience of 2
potential solutions

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Context
TEL
Toolkit
Engagement
Blended
learning
Flipped
classroom
Assessment
Collaboration
and co-
creation
Feedback
and
feedforward

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Engagement
• The student
experience
throughout
their time in
BU is a key
focus with
engagement
being a vital
component

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Engagement - examples
• Examples
• myBU / Brightspace
• Lecture capture
• Augmented reality
• Oculus Rift
• Facebook & Twitter
• Virtual classroom
• Audience response

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Mentimeter
• Easy to use audience response system
• Useful for presentations, lectures and workshops
• Fully web-based
• 5 million users
• Unlimited audience size
• 99.9% uptime
• https://www.mentimeter.com

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Mentimeter
• Pros
• Wide range of Qs
• Dynamic presentation
• Export results
• Excel, PDF, image
• Audience access
• No app. Web based
• Profanity filter
• Duplicate ability
• Try for free
• Cons
• Device dependent
• Cost for full licence
• $5/mo ex VAT
• 2Q per session if free

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Kahoot
• Audience response application
• Web-based
• More competition-based
• Limited to 100 users?
• Multiple choice questions only
• https://getkahoot.com

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Kahoot
• Pros
• The music
• Competitive
• Free account available
• No app. Web based
• Team mode
• Export results to Excel
• Duplicate ability
• Cons
• The music
• Single question type
• Large groups
• Device dependent

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Alternatives
• Turning Point
• Socrative
• …

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TEL Toolkit
The TEL Toolkit is an online, easy-to-use and
stimulating resource that can provide you
with knowledge and skills to innovate in your
teaching
Promotional video
Video walk-through for the
toolkit explaining its
structure and component
parts. Ideal for BU academic
staff as an introduction.

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TEL Toolkit
• Launched Feb 2016
• Publicly available. Drupal site
• Metrics to mid Feb 17
• 6,527 session
• 24,508 pageviews
• Maintained and developed by the TEL Toolkit
Working group
• Minutes on the CEL I drive
• Eg Epigeum and Collaborate added

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Digital skills self assessment
• Launched Feb 2016
• Confidence in tools and wider digital skills
• Voluntary and anonymous. 60% academic staff
completion
• Unaware = 32%, aware = 27%, practiced = 10%,
competent = 12%, proficient = 12%, expert = 8%
• 81% of staff enthusiastic and 51% cautious about
technology
• Finding posted on the CEL blog

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Digital skills self-assessment

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Links
• TEL Toolkit
• Using digital media in new learning models by Jisc, 2015
• 7 Things you should know about Flipped Classrooms by Educause,
Feb 2012
• The Inverted Classroom: What it is, Why We Need it and What it
Might Look Like, a keynote Prezi presentation, Teaching
Conference, University of Edinburgh, Jan 2012
• 5 Things I wish I knew When I Flipped My Class
• Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education, TED talk by Salman Khan
• The 10 Best Web Tools for Flipped Classrooms, by EDUDEMIC,
2013
• http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/innovating/