I’ve recently been given Project Lead responsibility for our institutional pilot of an Audience Response System (ARS) by TurningPoint during the 2008/2009 academic year. TurningPoint is an easy-to-use and interactive ARS which can be used increase levels of student engagement and motivation in a face-to-face learning and teaching context.
An ARS consists of set of small, handheld gadgets [usually called "clickers"] that allow students to participate in lecturers, seminars and tutorials by submitting responses to questions and viewing the responses as a graph.
Given that I’ve recently been on annual leave, I haven’t made as much progress on the project as I would have liked. However, I have begun to work up a project support blog at http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/ars/. For further information, do get in touch with me at e-learning@bath.ac.uk.
