Audience response systems in practice: Improving Hong Kong students' understanding of decision support systems

Audience response systems in practice: Improving Hong Kong students' understanding of decision support systems

Who's learning? Whose technology?: Proceedings [of] the 23rd annual conference of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, 3-6 December 2006, the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

• Banks, David A. School of Computer and Information Science, University of South Australia
• Monday, Ann School of Computer and Information Science, University of South Australia

• Markauskaite, L.
• Goodyear, P.
• Reimann, P.

Sydney

Sydney University Press

2006

Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education. Conference (2006: Sydney)

• F Learning & Teaching
  • FD Application of Communicative Media, IT in Learning & Teaching
• F Learning & Teaching
  • FA General Teaching Strategies, Different Instructional Methods

Computer Mediated Communication Cooperative Learning Cultural Background Decision Support Systems Feedback Learning Strategies Online Learners Online Learning Online Systems Student Teacher Relationship Undergraduate Students University Teaching Higher Education Hong Kong Anonymity Audience Response Systems Electronic Meeting Systems (EMS)

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

There will almost always be a number of students who are reluctant to actively contribute in face-to-face learning situations because they are shy or are culturally concerned about potential loss of face. Audience Response Systems (ARS) are part of a technology that, principally through its feature of anonymity, offers the opportunity for all students to safely contribute in face-to-face learning situations via individual keypads. Greater feedback from a group of learners poses benefits for both learner and teacher. For the teacher it can help identify areas where student understanding may be weak or incorrect and thus allow appropriate feedback to be applied. For the learner it allows them to see how fellow students are coping and to gauge their own relative performance. This paper reports on the use of an ARS with a group of students in Hong Kong studying a second year undergraduate decision support course. The ARS was used to provide process support for a revision session that explored decision support systems (DSS) and decision making and also to gather some details about the students as a population of learners.
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• English

Conference Papers

• 1920898476 (web)
• 9781920898465 (CD-ROM)
• 1920898468 (CD-ROM)
• 9781920898564 (v.1)
• 1920898565 (v.1)
• 9781920898571 (v.2)
• 1920898573 (v.2)

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2010-11-25