Electronic Voting Systems
Electronic Voting Systems - Clickers
E-learning - Electronic Voting Systems
Electronic voting systems (EVS) are used to collect digital responses to questions from groups of students. Each student has a hand-held personal response system(similar to those used in the TV programme “Who wants to be a Millionaire?”) and a receiver is attached to the lecturer's computer. The system allows lecturers to add question and answer activities to lecture sessions with large groups. EVS have been used in Universities for several years, and have adopted the name 'Clickers'
Clicker Resources
E-learning - Electronic Voting Systems
- A useful and accessible overview of the research in this area accompanied by practical hints and tips: Caldwell, J.E. (2007). Clickers in the large classroom: Current research and best-practice tips. Life Sciences Education, 6(1), 9-20. - PDF
- An overview of ten years of research and development with clickers at Harvard. Offers some good ideas about how to fit clickers into wider pedagogic approaches: Crouch, C. & Mazur, E. (2001). Peer instruction: ten years of experience and results. American Journal of Physics, 69(9), 970-977. -PDF
- Scotsman Article on clickers at the University of Edinburgh (12 02 08) - WEB
- Independent Article on clickers (14 02 08) - WEB
