Put Learning into a High Gear by Making it Interactive

 

Highly interactive environment is crucial for the transformation of learning into an extremely effective and enjoyable experience. Classroom response systems bring interactivity to lectures, classroom discussions, presentations and various other training and education sessions. With instant feedback and questions answered in real time, academic and corporate worlds take their learning into new heights.

Increase level of interaction between teacher and students

Interactivity is created between the trainer and the trainee by the classroom response systems that combine wireless audience response clickers with interactive polling software, most often integrated with PowerPoint.

These systems have been increasingly utilized in carrying out classroom surveys, voting and taking the responses of the local and remote audiences.

Assess student’s response in real time

• You content is projected on the screen and the classroom response system displays the questions to the audience. Participants then make use of the wireless keypads to answer the questions in real time.
• All the results are collected by the response software and are displayed after the polling has been closed.
• All of the information collected by the response technology can be used to evaluate, grade and track progress of the students. Additionally, a polling system can take the attendance of students present in the classroom.

Get immediate feedback while the lecture is going on

• Teachers can discuss with their students the reason why they chose a particular answer and can reinforce the key points of the discussion and or material.
• Using classroom response systems is completely anonymous in comparison to other traditional methods like raising hands. However, presenter can choose to track keypads and their holders using a participant list.
• With the help of the response keypads, audience can give immediate feedback at the time of presentation and the presenter can have a timely understanding about their level of comprehension.
• This technology is extremely useful in the execution of the quizzes, polls, research and seeking immediate replies.
• After closing each of the question & answer sessions, response software displays the results graphically, as well as stores data for future reporting and assessment needs.

Classroom response technology makes learning fun and interactive

The students will have improved attention in the classrooms and they will be able to retain the subject matter for a longer time. In fact, using a classroom response system can increase retention of the course material by 40% over a period of 3 weeks and promote discussion among students which improves understanding about the subject.

Create detailed and more customized lesson plans

After each session, the teacher can generate reports from the data, which is collected and stored in the software. Reports can be customized and will enable the teacher to determine the level of effectiveness of his/her lectures. By studying the answers given by the students, underperforming ones can be easily spotted and given extra attention. The teacher can create a more detailed lesson plan for certain topics and can closely monitor the performance of the students in various subjects.