Clickers Reloaded
- Date: 7 Dec 2011
- Start Time: 09:30 am
- Location/venue: The University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell Building, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH9 3JZ
Current practice and future trends in the use of electronic voting systems for teaching and learning.
Electronic voting systems (EVS), aka ‘clickers’, are handheld response systems that enable students to answer multiple-choice questions posed by their lecturers. Clickers are a powerful tool for adding interactivity and engagement to lectures. They can be used in a multiplicity of ways, for example to check prior knowledge or recall, to provide course feedback, to promote conceptual understanding or to facilitate peer instruction.
Clickers have been widely used in universities for a number of years. At the University of Edinburgh they are currently used by more than 100 lecturers and 2,400 students, especially (although by no means exclusively) in large pre-honours courses in science and engineering disciplines.
In this workshop speakers from the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow will share practical examples and experiences of using clickers for a variety of in-class activities. We will also look at some future trends in EVS technologies and at the range of teaching and learning activities that they support.
Programme
09:30 - 09:35 Welcome
Simon Bates, Dean of Learning and Teaching, College of Science and Engineering, University of Edinburgh
09:35 - 10:20 EVS: Linked questios; meta-messages
Steve Draper, School of Psychology, University of Glasgow
10:20 - 10:40 Going all the way: Use of clickers for peer instruction and just-in-time teaching
Ross Galloway, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
10:40 - 11:00 Reflective clicking
Heather McQueen, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh
11:00 - 11:30 COFFEE
11:30 – 11:50 Patterns and opinions of clicker use in SCE: findings from a recent staff survey
Danny Homer, 4th year undergraduate student, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
11:50 – 12:10 Current state of play and future trends in EVS technology
Jim Sheach, Learning and Teaching Spaces Technology Section, Information Services, University of Edinburgh
12:10 – 12:30 More than just MCQs: Socrative as an alternative to clickers
Simon Bates, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
12:30 – 12:50 Tell me what I need to know - Level 1 student induction using interactive handsets
Eric Yao, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow
12:50 – 13:50 LUNCH (provided)