Stimulating Interactions with Students
The main purpose of an audience response system is to let the audience participate in the interaction going on. This kind of technology is not only proven very useful during business conferences, large corporate meetings, voting, and interactive assemblies but also in education as well.
Many universities equipped with audience response system have experienced the role of this technology in enhancing learning inside the classroom. Aside from good visual aids, projectors, educational software and interactive whiteboards, response systems motivate the students into expressing their opinions, ideas, and analytical interpretations about the subject being discussed in class. As compared with the boring classroom scenario where the teacher is the only person in class speaking and relaying information, classrooms with response systems allow students to contradict or question the ideas being discussed and would therefore stimulate the exchange of ideas and facts between students and teacher.
Modern teaching strategies that make use of multimedia contents with video and audio files are proven to be most effective in influencing the interests and capturing the attention of the students. Such teaching techniques promote effective learning and also help students to remember the lessons they have learned in class.