Research trends in student response systems: A literature review

International Journal of Learning Technology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 313-325

  Aljaloud, Abdulaziz ^a   Gromik, Nicolas ^a   Billingsley, William ^a   Kwan, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clicker; SRS; Student engagement; Student learning; Student response system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964727220     PISSN: 14778386     EISSN: 17418119     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJLT.2015.074073     Document Type: Review

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