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Title

The carrot without the stick: a case study of encouraging post-event student engagement with mobile phone technologies

Author(s)

Banky, George P.

Abstract

The difficulty of successfully engaging students to participate in their learning at tertiary institutions has been identified by researchers as a major concern. In particular, post-event learner engagement with lecture material is virtually non-existent. In this sequential study over two semesters, students, who were enrolled into a first-year undergraduate subject, were asked to submit electronically, before the commencement of the next lecture, answers to a question that either related to or extended the content of the previous lecture. In order to encourage their level of post-event engagement, during one of the semesters, at the start of each of their lectures not only were the previously posed questions discussed, but the students were first asked to vote, using their mobile phones, on the correct answer from a choice of alternatives. The effect of this intervention was gauged from participants’ perceptions and triangulated with each cohort’s online submission rates. The results indicated that while their online submission rates did not improve significantly, the students did perceive that participating in the voting process encouraged them to investigate the set questions in their own time.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology

Source

Proceedings of 'Past, Present, Future: the 'Keys' to Engineering Education Research and Practice', the 21st Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AaeE 2010), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 05-08 December 2010, pp. 296-300

Publication year

2010

FOR Code(s)

09 Engineering

Keyword(s)

Electronic voting systems;  Higher education;  Learning;  Mobile phones;  Student engagement

Publisher

Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney

Publisher URL

http://www.aaee2010.com.au/

Copyright

Copyright © George P. Banky, 2010. The author assign to AaeE and educational non-profit institutions a non-exclusive licence to use this document for personal use and in courses of instruction provided that the article is used in full and this copyright statement is reproduced. The author also grant a non-exclusive licence to AaeE to publish this document in full on the World Wide Web (prime sites and mirrors) on CD-ROM or USB, and in printed form within the AaeE 2010 conference proceedings. Published version of the paper reproduced here in accordance with this policy.

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