TELFest 2018 - Boosting participation with Poll Everywhere
Channel: ANU Online
Date: 2018-12-20

TELFest 2018 Presentation recording - https://telfest.weblogs.anu.edu.au/

Boosting participation with Poll Everywhere - Salman Durrani (CECS)

Teaching with a classroom response system is well recognized as an effective method for active in class learning, by engaging the students minds, when coupled with appropriate pedagogies. This talk will discuss the pedagogy (adapted from the cognitive apprenticeship model) that has been employed in the first and second year electronics courses in the ANU Bachelor of Engineering program when using Poll Everywhere to enhance student learning and engagement over the past 3 semesters. It will (i) discuss the technical implementation aspects, such as standalone and embedded PowerPoint operation, (ii) share the lessons learned including student feedback and (iii) provide advice on best practices when using in class live interactive audience participation tools to boost in class participation, demystify student misconceptions and enable tough engineering concepts to sink in.

The purpose of this talk is not to focus on comparing Poll Everywhere (currently not available to ANU staff) and echo360 alp (currently available to ANU staff). For interested staff, such a comparison is available at: https://services.anu.edu.au/files/publication-collection/EFS%20News%20Dec%202017.pdf (page 5). Instead, this talk will focus on the adopted pedagogy and lessons learned which are applicable to any interactive tool.