Audience Response System [ARS]

Over the last 12 months or so, I’ve been working with colleagues in the Departments of Computer Science & Social & Policy Sciences respectively to draw together some of their work related to the use of Audience Response Systems (ARS) to enhance feedback to students.

Links to conference papers and presentation slides appear below.

• Cliffe, E., Davenport, J., De Vos, M., Parmar, N. R., Hayes, A., 2010. Using EVS and ResponseWare to Enhance Student Learning and Learning Experience. Submitted to: 11th Annual Conference of Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Information and Computer Science, 24-26 August 2010, Durham, UK. Higher Education Academy Centre for ICS. [paper]
• Bashforth H., Parmar N.R. (2010). The search for active learning: Lessons from a happy accident. In: C-SAP e-Learning Forum: sharing materials and practice in the social sciences. HEA Subject Network for Sociology, Anthropology, Politics. University of Birmingham. [paper| slides available on SlideShare]
• Davenport J.H., Hayes A., Parmar N.R. (2009). The use of an Electronic Voting System to enhance student feedback. In the proceedings of: 4th Plymouth e-Learning Conference: Boundary Changes: Redefining Learning Spaces. [paper | slides available on SlideShare]

Should you have any questions related to any of the findings, please do get in touch with me at e-learning@bath.ac.uk or any of the authors listed.

A couple of weeks ago, I gave an introduction to the use of the Audience Response System at the University of Bath to School of Management staff. The slides appear below.

If you did not happen to attend the presentation, but would still like to find out more about the ARS, please do get in touch either on 01225 384 392 or via email at e-learning@bath.ac.uk

Earlier today, and as part of Innovations in Learning and Teaching Week 2010, I ran a two hour session whiced introduced a range of tools available at the university to enable you to support and enhance the learner experience using classroom feedback technologies. In particular, the use of the institutional Audience Response System (ARS).

The session focused on introducing this technology, gaining experience of using it and thinking about how you might use it in your teaching. The slides used appear below.

If you’d like further information about the ARS, or would like to use it to support your learning and teaching related activities, please contact Nitin Parmar, the ARS Project Lead, at:  e-learning@bath.ac.uk.

I am pleased to say that, following on from my post last week regarding the Audience Response System-related coffee break session that I presented last week, a video is now available online.

The video which was captured by my colleague Joe Buchanan, using Techsmith’s Camtasia 6, can be found at: http://go.bath.ac.uk/g8xc.

Colleagues will need to have Windows Media Player installed on their PCs be be able to watch it.

Update! Details on the recording process can be found over on the Desktop Conferencing blog at: http://go.bath.ac.uk/7upd

Earlier today, I presented as part our the e-Learning Coffee Break series using our desktop conferencing software, Megameeting, at the University of Bath. The relevant slides appear below.

If you did not happen to attend the presentation, but would still like to find out more about the ARS, please do get in touch either on 01225 384 392 or via email at e-learning@bath.ac.uk