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Mobile phone-based audience response system and student engagement in large-group teaching

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posted on 2012-12-01, 00:00 authored by Ameeta JainAmeeta Jain, A Farley
Engaging students in large classes is a challenge at the best of times. Teachers are increasingly seeking the help of new technology to keep the attention of their technologically savvy students. VotApedia, a free cell phone-based audience response system, is one such technology. This research aims to assess economics students' perceptions of use of VotApedia in helping to achieve deeper learning; to map importance of use of audience response technology for students in promoting engagement and to assess the promotion of a positive and active environment in lectures by use of VotApedia in an Australian University. Using the framework of activity theory, it argues that technologies such as VotApedia use positive feedback loops to facilitate improved student engagement and learning.

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Journal

Economic papers

Volume

31

Issue

4

Pagination

428 - 439

Publisher

Wiley - Blackwell Publishing Asia

Location

Richmond, Vic.

ISSN

0812-0439

eISSN

1759-3441

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2012, The Economic Society of Australia

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