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QWIZDOM INTERACTIVE VOTING SYSTEM FOR LARGER CLASSES
Mary JacobE-learning Advisor, Information [email protected]
What is Qwizdom?
‘Ask the Audience’ classroom response system ‘Clickers’ Voting system Personal response system
Questions in PowerPoint
Learning & Teaching Enhancement Fund Enhance large group teaching Summer 2008 - doubled equipment
stock2006: 28 handsets + hub
2007: 28 handsets + hub
2008: 32 handsets + hub
2008: 32 handsets + hub
AY 2008/9 usage to date
Staff using Qwizdom 16Total handsets 120Teaching sessions booked
131
NOTE:
Some staff use one handset per small group or pair, not per student.
Month Staff Total 1 set 2 sets 3 sets 4 sets
Sep-08 6 12 11 1 0 0
Oct-08 4 21 19 2 0 0
Nov-08 8 21 19 2 0 0
Dec-08 4 8 2 3 2 1
Jan-09 3 4 3 1 0 0
Feb-09 8 26 15 8 0 3
Mar-09 6 20 10 8 0 2
AY 2008/9 usage to date
Sep-
08
Oct-0
8
Nov-0
8
Dec-0
8
Jan-
09
Feb-
09
Mar
-09
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
4 sets3 sets2 sets1 set
Who is using it?
Academic departments Biological, Environmental and Rural
Sciences Computer Science Management and Business Mathematical and Physical Sciences Sport and Exercise Science
Support and other Commercialisation and Consultancy Services Information Services Widening Access Partnership
How are they using it?
Undergraduate teaching Linking lectures with previous material Building foundational skills such as
numeracy Summarising at end of lecture Contingent teaching Move away from transmission model,
promote active learning, peer learning Break up 2-hour lectures Revision for exams Module evaluation
How are they using it?
Other Library induction activities
Outreach 145 secondary school pupils debate for
Welsh Baccalaureate Qualification Coleg Ceredigion library activity Recruitment activity for History A-level
students
Tips Give ‘don’t know’
option Problem-solving Limit time
Student response
More engaged Perceive
improved learning
Want Qwizdom used more widely
Using Qwizdom in lecture is helpful and makes us
concentrate
Impact of additional kit
Benefits – Use in larger classes Easier to book, can be used more widely Easier to use outside of Penglais campus
Drawbacks – Large, heavy bags of kit Logistics of using multiple sets
Conclusions – method
Proven valuable, pedagogies embedded Large group teaching Active learning
Further uses Module evaluation Outreach/recruitment
Conclusions – technology
Well-received, some limitations
Some depts considering buying
Centrally supported software
Committed to Qwizdom
For further information
Aberystwyth Learning & Teaching Online (ALTO) http://alto.aber.ac.uk/en/tools/vote.php http://delicious.com/is_alto/clickers
Equipment booking [email protected]
Queries [email protected] Training booking (CDSAP)
https://secure.mis.aber.ac.uk/staffdev/sd/list_courses.php
