Experiences of Using Real-Time Classroom Response Systems

Abstract

Heraclitus: “No man ever steps in the same river twice…” It is the same with teaching as well. New methods, new technologies and new demands appear time to time and we have to answer to the challenge. Nowadays almost everybody has minimum one smart mobile device, everybody likes and uses social networks, and everybody is accustomed to get information just in time. Some institute denies the usage of mobile devices during lessons, but we think this is not the proper solution. Instead of denying them we are thinking about how can we use these new possibilities in education? Using classroom response systems may give new interesting methods into our hands. We made a survey to discover the opinion of students, implemented a new tool eLection, which exactly fits to our special wants and measured the results.