This guide is intended to assist you in learning more about online classroom response systems and selecting which system will work best for your classroom. Use the tabs on the side to navigate through the guide and learn more about using each CRS.
Online Classroom Response Systems/Audience Response Systems are in essence electronic voting systems that allow instructors to engage students and introduce active learning techniques into the classroom or lecture. Response Systems began as hand-held voting devices (clickers), a "show of hands" approach, or flashcards. New online systems allow data to be collected faster, more visually appealing interfaces, confidentiality, and ease of use are quickly making online platforms classroom favorites - by both teachers and students.*
Online CRS are an easy to use active learning method and a way to engage with students. Most systems allow students to answer via cell-phones, computer, or tablets -- solving the issue of student or departments purchasing clickers, installing software, outdated models, and boring interfaces. Online CRS can be created, updated, and published from anywhere giving faculty a wider-range of classroom abilities. Online CRS allow teachers to harness student reliance on technology in a fun and engaging manner.
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* Middleditch, Paul & Moindrot, Will. "Using Classroom Response Systems for Creative Interaction & Engagement with Students." Cogent Economics & Finance 3, no. 1 (2015). DOI: 10.1080/23322039.2015.1119368.
* Draper, S.W. & Brown, M.I. "Increasing Interactivity in Lectures Using an Electronic Voting System." Journal of Computing Assisted Learning 20 (2004): 81-94. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2729.2004.00074.x