Rice Faculty Members Talk About Audience Response Systems

As Rice University continues to evaluate solutions for a campus wide deployment of audience response systems, we set out to talk with faculty members and students that currently use ARS in the classroom. This video shows Dr. Paul Padley (Physics and Astronomy), and Dr. Rachel Kimbro (Sociology), along with their students, talking you through their experiences and impressions, as they teach and learn with Audience Response Systems.

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Audience Response Systems Focus Group

The Educational Technologies group in Information Technology (IT) has received an increasing number of requests for audience response systems in Rice classrooms. Audience Response Systems interface with instructional computers allowing faculty members to query, collect, and display student responses to the attending class via hand held devices. Two classrooms currently have the software and the clickers that turn PowerPoint presentations into interactive classroom discussions.

IT is hosting several focus groups during the last week of February to gauge additional interest.

In these focus groups, EdTech staff will demonstrate several vendors' products (yes, you can hold a clicker and participate in the demo!) and we will ask participants to estimate if and when they would be ready to use the applications in their Rice courses.

If you would like to participate in one of the focus groups, please email carlyn@rice.edu to learn the dates and times for the focus groups.