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2008: Conference on Teaching and Learning - Proceedings

Creating an Interactive Learning Environment: Experience of using a Student Response System

  • Daniel Hellström
  • Ola Johansson
Submitted
May 15, 2013
Published
2013-05-15

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to briefly discuss the rationale for using Student Response Systems (SRS) and to share our experience of using this teaching technology in a training session. Our experiences support existing pedagogical research and show that SRS can be used to transform traditionally passive lecture-based classes into stimulating, active learning environments. Students demonstrate better comprehension and motivation when employing SRS compared to being taught in conventional lecture-based classes. Moreover, as teachers, SRS enable us to immediately assess student knowledge of a particular concept, and adapt the instructions we give to the learning needs of the students.