Abstract
Classroom Response Systems (CRS) provide lecturers a communication channel to get feedback from their students. In lessons with large audiences, CRS allow students to ask questions or state issues as the lesson continues. During the development and usage of our new CRS "Tweedback", we observed several technical and non-technical problems, which are likely to be general CRS issues. Observed problems are caused by necessary devices, their connectivity and lecturersâ?? and studentsâ?? different ways to use CRS. In this paper, we describe our observations of technical and nontechnical problems and suggest solutions, which may be applied generically to interactive feedback systems.
Highlights
Smartphones, Tablets and Notebooks have become students’ everyday companions
This publication provides an overview on approaches, existing projects and current solutions for live feedback in lessons with large audiences developed at German universities
We documented technical and nontechnical problems we observed in Classroom Response Systems” (CRS) and suggest solutions to them
Summary
Smartphones, Tablets and Notebooks have become students’ everyday companions. They are used for communication, entertainment, and assistance in various scenarios. Researchers started to use these devices to create an additional communication channel between lecturers and students in lessons with large audiences. This publication provides an overview on approaches, existing projects and current solutions for live feedback in lessons with large audiences developed at German universities. We documented technical and nontechnical problems we observed in CRS and suggest solutions to them. In addition to technical problems, we observed several nontechnical problems with CRS: Students want to reply to other students questions and they want to access a lesson's content even after the actual lesson ended. Young students seem to have a higher motivation to write comments, which are unrelated to the content of teaching This behavior abates with the time of use, but lecturers should be aware of it.
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