{"id":33,"date":"2006-02-07T22:01:09","date_gmt":"2006-02-07T22:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conclave.open.ac.uk\/r.m.ferguson\/?p=33"},"modified":"2006-02-07T22:01:09","modified_gmt":"2006-02-07T22:01:09","slug":"h807-case-study-personal-response-systems-121205","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"H807 Case Study: Personal Response Systems (12.12.05)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t seen this technology before. They&#8217;re mini-electronic voting gadgets. The lecturer asks a question &#8211; people vote on the answer, see the voting results on the interactive whiteboard and then get together in groups to argue their position. Then they can vote again.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m dubious about the expense here. I&#8217;ve seen exactly the same thing done in primary classrooms, only each pupil has a wipe-clean whiteboard on which they write their answer and hold it up for the teacher to see. Presumably, if they&#8217;d thought along these lines, the Victorians could have done it with slates.<\/p>\n<p>The key element here is enthusiasm. The students are motivated, they pay attention, they enjoy the class and the lecturers enjoy the class. The technology adds a feel-good factor. One professor says it radically changes the whole dynamics of what happens in a typical large class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t seen this technology before. They&#8217;re mini-electronic voting gadgets. The lecturer asks a question &#8211; people vote on the answer, see the voting results on the interactive whiteboard and then get together in groups to argue their position. Then they can vote again. I&#8217;m dubious about the expense here. I&#8217;ve seen exactly the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-h806-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/r.m.ferguson\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}