Optimising Personal Audience Response Systems technology to enhance student learning in teacher education lectures
New technologies are integral to the lives of most ‘Generation Y’ students. They tend to be visually-oriented learners, prefer relaxed and socially conducive learning environments, and anticipate engaging, relevant, and authentic learning experiences. Work environments commonly assume prospective employees to be technologically competent. In particular, school teachers are expected to embed new technologies in their teaching. As teacher educators at Edith Cowan University mindful of these imperatives we recently trialled a Personal Audience Response System (PARS) in our education lectures to e... Show more
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Published: Sydney, New South Wales, HERDSA, 2009
Resource type: Conference paper
Physical description: [11] p.
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