Mobile phone voting for participation and engagement in a large compulsory law course
| dc.contributor.author | Habel, C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Stubbs, M. | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This article reports on an action-research project designed to investigate the effect of a technological intervention on the complex interactions between student engagement, participation, attendance and preparation in a large lecture delivered as part of a compulsory first-year law course, a discipline which has not been the focus of any previous study. The technology used was VotApedia, a form of mobile phone voting, and it was implemented in tandem with constructivist pedagogies such as explicit pre-reading and a prior context of interactive lecturing. Data were collected through observation, via mobile phone voting in class and by an online survey designed to specifically explore the relationship between attendance at VotApedia lectures and factors such as self-reported engagement, attendance and preparation. The findings indicated that student response systems (SRSs) are just as applicable to more Humanities-style disciplines which require divergent questioning, and supported complex interactions between engagement, attendance and preparation. Preliminary findings indicated that, although more work needs to be done, especially on the types of students who prefer to use these systems, there is a clear potential to increase student engagement in large law lectures through the use of SRSs. | |
| dc.description.statementofresponsibility | Chad Habel, Matthew Stubbs | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Research in Learning Technology, 2014; 22(1):19537-1-19537-15 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.3402/rlt.v22.19537 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2156-7069 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2156-7077 | |
| dc.identifier.orcid | Habel, C. [0000-0001-5468-3343] | |
| dc.identifier.orcid | Stubbs, M. [0000-0001-7612-960X] | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2440/84973 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Co-Action Publishing | |
| dc.rights | Research in Learning Technology 2014. © 2014 C. Habel and M. Stubbs. Research in Learning Technology is the journal of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT), a UK-based professional and scholarly society and membership organisation. ALT is registered charity number 1063519. http://www.alt.ac.uk/. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license. | |
| dc.source.uri | https://doi.org/10.3402/rlt.v22.19537 | |
| dc.subject | student response systems; pedagogy; VotApedia; constructivism; action research | |
| dc.title | Mobile phone voting for participation and engagement in a large compulsory law course | |
| dc.type | Journal article | |
| pubs.publication-status | Published |
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