'Pretty Lights' and Maths! Increasing student engagement and enhancing learning through the use of electronic voting systems

Computers and Education

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 189-199

  King, Samuel O ^a   Robinson, Carol L ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evaluation of CAL systems; Improving classroom teaching; Interactive learning environments; Media in education; Multimedia hypermedia systems

Indexed keywords

EVALUATION OF CAL SYSTEMS; IMPROVING CLASSROOM TEACHING; INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; MEDIA IN EDUCATION; MULTIMEDIA/HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SCHOOL BUILDINGS; SET THEORY; STUDENTS; VOTING MACHINES;

TEACHING;

EID: 64449083603     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2009.01.012     Document Type: Article

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