Audience Response System

Technology today is making deep inroads into the field of education. ICT and AV resources are considered as practical and enabling solutions which are enhancing the quality of education in the whole world. One such ICT and AV resource which has contributed a lot in making the teaching and learning system more interesting is an Audience Response System.

An Audience Response System, which is also termed as Student Response System or Classroom Response System is a range of ICT (Information and communication technology), based educational assessment gadgets or handsets which are designed to build up an interactive and engaging learning environment in order to enhance student or learner participation.

With an interactive Audience response system, students can submit their replies against questions raised by Teacher in a class room. Students can answer in the form of as true or false, yes or no, numeric, text, multiple choices and sequence with these Student Response Systems. The response software installed on the computer accumulates all the responses collected from the Audience response system, to assess the individual student performance to ensure that they have understood the subject both theoretically as well as practically.

An Audience Response System is an incredible ICT resource for assisting ‘Student Centric Learning’. With an Audience Response System, Students or Learners can actively participate in polls, questions or surveys raised by teachers or presenters. Audience Response System help in eradicating cumbersome and time consuming paper evaluation, result tallying and answer checking methods, in turn saving a lot of time.

Genee’s Audience Response System range is highly interoperable, flexible and easy to use. These Classroom Response Systems works amazingly with the latest version of Genee’s ClassComm software which allows a teacher or presenter to create lesson plans quickly and easily, as it is compatible with PowerPoint. With these innovative Student Response Systems, teachers get a chance to gauge out an idea of students understanding with their respective feedbacks and on the similar lines, students also get appropriate feedbacks on their answers from the teacher, instantly.

Teaching with technology

Technology plays a very important role in creating an efficient learning environment. The period of traditional whiteboards and notice boards is going to change with the progress of ICT (Information and communication technology).The vital part of a teaching methodology is the selection of the quality lessons to be delivered by the educators. Teachers therefore should employ teaching with technology. Teaching with technology creates classroom sessions which are informative, synergistic and exciting.

Nowadays, Classrooms are setup with ICT teaching products such as Interactive Whiteboards, Visualiser, response system, projectors and educational software etc. Teaching with technology is indispensable part of cultivating the students with proper skills in the global age. Many complex subjects can be learned with ease to a greater extent when teaching is supported by technology. Teachers have to use different kinds of teaching module to interrelate with students. Teaching with technology incorporates audiovisual aids that develop the inquisitiveness and memory of students. Employing teaching with technology in an effective manner will open up the loads of new ideas for teaching. Teachers are using interactive multimedia teaching contents with sound and video into their lessons. Teacher may bring a picture or draw a neat diagram on the board, but efficient learning still misses out. Multimedia teaching contents give the student an enhanced learning environment as they can experience the real phenomena and processes in a movie format. Teachers can write their comments using interactive whiteboards on their subject content and save it in computer that can’t be done through traditional boards. Document cameras are visual teaching aids for presenting an object to a large group of students. Document cameras are high resolution video cameras mounted on the arms to do visual presentations in the classroom increasing the efficiency of the lessons. The student can watch their teacher writing on a sheet of a paper or displaying a two or three dimension object onto the projection screen or the interactive whiteboard with the Document cameras. Audience Response Systems are an ICT (Information and communication technology) based educational assessment tool designed to build an attractive and fascinating learning environment that will enhance participation of audiences or students. Time has come to integrate Teaching with technology into the schools, colleges and universities for efficient learning and teaching.