Considerations for using personal Wi-Fi enabled devices as “clickers” in a large university class

Katz, Larry; Hallam, Megan C.; DuVall, Michael M.; Polsky, Zoe

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“…The clickers and Wi-Fi devices provided students with a way to receive instant formative feedback and provided the instructor with an opportunity to shift the instructional emphasis as needed based upon where students in the class were on a particular topic. Students were given the opportunity to utilize their own devices to take advantage of the findings of Katz et al (2017) [ 11 ], which indicated that students preferred using personal devices over clickers.…”

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The use of an active learning approach in a SCALE-UP learning space improves academic performance in undergraduate General Biology

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Active learning is a pedagogical approach that involves students engaging in collaborative learning, which enables them to take more responsibility for their learning and improve their critical thinking skills. While prior research examined student performance at majority universities, this study focuses on specifically Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) for the first time. Here we present work that focuses on the impact of active learning interventions at Florida A&M University, where we measured the impact of active learning strategies coupled with a SCALE-UP (Student Centered Active Learning Environment with Upside-down Pedagogies) learning environment on student success in General Biology. In biology sections where active learning techniques were employed, students watched online videos and completed specific activities before class covering information previously presented in a traditional lecture format. In-class activities were then carefully planned to reinforce critical concepts and enhance critical thinking skills through active learning techniques such as the one-minute paper, think-pair-share, and the utilization of clickers. Students in the active learning and control groups covered the same topics, took the same summative examinations and completed identical homework sets. In addition, the same instructor taught all of the sections included in this study. Testing demonstrated that these interventions increased learning gains by as much as 16%, and students reported an increase in their positive perceptions of active learning and biology. Overall, our results suggest that active learning approaches coupled with the SCALE-UP environment may provide an added opportunity for student success when compared with the standard modes of instruction in General Biology.

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“…One of the issues we as teachers had not considered was the need for an extensive wifi network across the institution if the modified YACRS system is to work optimally. Previous research has found this to be a problem when using personal wifi-enabled devices (Katz et al, 2017). The Computing Science students brought this to our attention, as they use YACRS more than we do: it is built into much of their course assessment and their experience is that, once the class size grows over approximately fifty students, the system is unable to handle it, the wifi becomes patchy and students are unable to access the questions.…”

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A staff/student partnership for bringing the One-Minute Paper into the digital age

Karlsson

Gibb

Ferri

2018

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The One-Minute Paper (OMP) is a formative classroom assessment and feedback technique. It can be used by lecturers to identify instances where they have not been clear in their teaching or where the topic covered has been difficult for students to grasp, thus enabling lecturers to address the issues that need further clarity. Whilst the paper-based OMP may have fallen out of fashion in the twenty-first century digital age (being especially difficult to utilise efficiently in large classes), we believe that the OMP is an invaluable learning tool that simply needs to be transposed into a digital format. This paper outlines a staff/student partnership focused on redesigning an existing classroom response system to enable a digital One-Minute Paper (DOMP) to be administered. The DOMP is envisaged to be able to capture qualitative feedback responses from students and facilitate quick analysis of such responses.

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“…The textbook market, which has a new class of motivated buyers every semester, is also rapidly changing, with students actively exploring alternatives in used and grey textbook markets and instructional technologies regularly coming into and falling out of favour. 19 The market also has clearly defined gaps to fill in the form of recurring courses for which no textbook currently exists. 20 In this rapidly changing market, libraries and presses are uniquely positioned to develop services and materials that leverage their specific expertise by grounding their work in the needs of a specific department, campus, or community.…”

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The Open Textbook Toolkit: Seeding Successful Partnerships for Collaboration between Academic Libraries and University Presses

Waller¹,

Cross²,

Rigling³

2017

Journal of Scholarly Publishing

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Abstract:Libraries and university presses coexist in a complex and increasingly consolidated scholarly communication ecosystem. Each brings different strengths, values, and viewpoints that can inform and enrich a joint project. In this paper we discuss potential barriers to and benefits of collaboration between academic libraries and university presses and introduce a case study of such a collaboration: the Open Textbook Toolkit. This project, funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, is currently investigating the components needed to support faculty in one discipline, psychology, who are considering adopting open educational resources. By leveraging both library and press expertise, the Toolkit represents one model for fruitful collaboration.

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Considerations for using personal Wi-Fi enabled devices as “clickers” in a large university class

Cited by 17 publications

References 25 publications

The use of an active learning approach in a SCALE-UP learning space improves academic performance in undergraduate General Biology

The use of an active learning approach in a SCALE-UP learning space improves academic performance in undergraduate General Biology

A staff/student partnership for bringing the One-Minute Paper into the digital age

The Open Textbook Toolkit: Seeding Successful Partnerships for Collaboration between Academic Libraries and University Presses

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