Clicking on or off? lecturers' rationale for using student response systems

ASCILITE 2007 - The Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 771-779

  O'Donoghue, Michael ^a   O'Steen, Billy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Clickers; Interaction; Student response systems

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL THINKING; CLICKERS; DATA SUPPORT; INTERACTION; LARGE GROUPS; LEARNING OUTCOME; LECTURE MATERIALS; LITERATURE REVIEWS; PRACTICAL GUIDANCE; QUALITATIVE DATA; QUANTITATIVE DATA; STAFF MEMBERS; STUDENT MOTIVATION; STUDENT-RESPONSE SYSTEM; TERTIARY EDUCATION;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; TEACHING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84871020576     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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