Realtime voting: activity and interactivity in large student groups version for web archive

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Real-time voting activity and interactivity in
large student groups(version for web archive)

• Dr. Stephen BostockAdvisor for Technology and
  LearningKeele University, UK
• s.j.bostock_at_keele.ac.uk

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Summary

• How do we create active learning or engagement in
  lectures and seminars?
• There are five modes of engagement in student
  groups.
• Voting works and can be done cheaply.

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Dialogue
Student
Teacher
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Delivery
passive role
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Enhanced Delivery
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Individual activity
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Examples of student activities

• Solve a problem
• Complete a gapped handout
• Answer quiz questions
• Read something short with a purpose
• Write their own questions and answers

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Student interactivity
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Examples of student interactivities

• Make notes on a topic together
• Compare notes made so far
• Buzz groups discuss something
• Recap slot summarize to each other

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Student-teacherinteractivity
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Summary Modes of engagement in large groups

• Information delivery talking no learning
  activity beyond listening note taking
• Enhanced presentations
• Student individual activity
• Student interactivity in small groups
• Student tutor interactivity individual
  feedback to a teacher through a personal
  response system and feedback to students on
  their responses

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How many modes of engagement are there in large
groups?

• 1 Vote A
• 2 Vote B
• 3 Vote C
• 4 Vote D
• 5 Vote E
• 6 Vote F

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CommuniCubes
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Do you understand how to vote with a CommuniCube?

• No, say it again
• Not sure, lets see how it goes
• Yes, carry on

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First year Psychology
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Second year Law students with CommuniCubesphotogr
aph removed
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Dr Ian Stimpson using the cubes with a widening
participation group
A video was shown here of students using
CommuniCubes in a geology session on earthquakes
that cause tsunamis.
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Two ways of giving results Back to the group, if
you need To display them.
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Response technologiesPersonal Response Systems

• Electronic voting handsets
• anonymous but can opt out
• automatic counting and display
• electronic high risk for teacher, training
  needed
• expensive

Similar pedagogy
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Types of questions with a Personal Response
System

• Multiple choice quiz/problem solving at start to
  diagnose initial understanding
• Students self-report relevant experience
• Concept check Multiple choice quiz on content
  just delivered
• Students self-report level of understanding
• Students opt for a revision topic
• Combine MCQ with small group discussion
  (activity), and presentations.

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1st year Psychology after several sessions
reasons cubes are helpful

• Score high most important
• 12. Gave me feedback on my understanding
• 12. It was fun, made lecture interesting
• 8. Participation, made me think, contribute, be
  involved, express an opinion
• 6. (Mention of) interactive

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With your CommuniCube

• Vote for
• Hear an interview with Ian Stimpson
• Say more about student evaluations
• Say more about electronic Personal Response
  Systems
• Say more about CommuniCubes

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Sources

• CommuniCubes intermediate technology for
  interaction with large groups, Stephen J.
  Bostock, Julie A. Hulme and Mark A. Davys in
  Audience Response Systems in HigherEducation ed
  David Banks 2006
• Steve Draper Interactive lectures web
  sitehttp//www.psy.gla.ac.uk/steve/ilig/il.html
  
• Davies, P. 2003 Practical ideas for enhancing
  lectures Birmingham SEDA Special 13, Staff and
  Educational Development Association, UK

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stop
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Interview with Ian Stimpson
(5 minutes)
(This may not work on the web archive)
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Evaluation conclusion

• Most students found them helpful to learning
  modal value is significant advantage
• A few (able?) students may dislike them
• In first year lectures the main reasons were
  getting feedback on understanding and fun
• In second and third year seminars the reason was
  the enforced participation
• The learning gains will depend on appropriate
  use, of course

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Personal Response Systems PRS

• Infrared or radio handsets with unique codes in a
  set. Codes are detected and numbers fed to
  software to display/store results, maybe through
  PowerPoint.
• Can be anonymous or use non-anonymous class
  register
• Cost 60-150 per handset
• Staff training needed
• Risk of technical failure?

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CommuniCubes

• Coloured cards and triangles have been used for
  voting
• Cubes refine the idea and give 5 number choices
• Best in a raked lecture hall with benching or
  seminar with tables
• Pedagogic practice similar to PRS participation
  is enforced mix with other modes
• Anonymous to different degrees
• Different uses in seminars
• Intellectual Property Rights Stephen Bostock