Student Engagement Strategies
Students are encouraged in classrooms to participate in the learning process and take ownership of their learning. Student engagement is a large component of student learning and educational technology provides many opportunities for enhancing communication and increasing interactivity within courses. Educational technologies are rapidly evolving with many applications been used in various ways for education in order to enable students learn better.
SRS
Student engagement, discussions, and active participation particularly in large classrooms are often limited as a result of the dominance of responses from some students, the physical size/ structure of the lecture room, and inability to hear student responses. Innovative teaching techniques …show more content…
SRS is an interactive response system of wireless mobile technology that makes use of digital tools/ handheld devices that enable students to participate in class activities and answer questions posed by instructors anonymously (Stoddard & Piquette, 2010). SRS is generically a polling device that provides instructors the ability to immediately collect/gather student responses to course related multiple-choice/open-ended questions as well as summarize and visually present responses (Chui, Martin, & Pike, 2013). Questions presented via SRS are often in a multi-choice format, however due to the evolving SRS technology, questions are now not only limited to multi-choice …show more content…
But, there are two major types of SRS systems (the traditional clicker and SRS using mobile web-based devices) (Kirley, 2017). Both systems comprise of three main components: an answer keypad with a signal emitter, a signal receiver, and a processing unit. In the traditional system, the emitter component is a clicker device, whereas in the Web-based system it is usually a mobile phone (Hwang, Wong, Lam, & Lam, 2015). SRS systems may use either proprietary hardware such as receivers, response pads (clickers), and response units; existing hardware such as cell phones and computers for instance Poll everywhere that is internet based; or a blend of the two such as iclicker which has a response pad and is also internet based (Carnaghan et al.,
SRS
Student engagement, discussions, and active participation particularly in large classrooms are often limited as a result of the dominance of responses from some students, the physical size/ structure of the lecture room, and inability to hear student responses. Innovative teaching techniques …show more content…
SRS is an interactive response system of wireless mobile technology that makes use of digital tools/ handheld devices that enable students to participate in class activities and answer questions posed by instructors anonymously (Stoddard & Piquette, 2010). SRS is generically a polling device that provides instructors the ability to immediately collect/gather student responses to course related multiple-choice/open-ended questions as well as summarize and visually present responses (Chui, Martin, & Pike, 2013). Questions presented via SRS are often in a multi-choice format, however due to the evolving SRS technology, questions are now not only limited to multi-choice …show more content…
But, there are two major types of SRS systems (the traditional clicker and SRS using mobile web-based devices) (Kirley, 2017). Both systems comprise of three main components: an answer keypad with a signal emitter, a signal receiver, and a processing unit. In the traditional system, the emitter component is a clicker device, whereas in the Web-based system it is usually a mobile phone (Hwang, Wong, Lam, & Lam, 2015). SRS systems may use either proprietary hardware such as receivers, response pads (clickers), and response units; existing hardware such as cell phones and computers for instance Poll everywhere that is internet based; or a blend of the two such as iclicker which has a response pad and is also internet based (Carnaghan et al.,