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Albert Lee            Department of Chemistry/Office of Students AffairsJoseph Ng            Department of Computer ScienceAlfred Tan            Knowledge Transfer OfficeEva Wong             Centre for Holistic Teaching and Learning

29 May 20138theLearning Forum Asia 2013

DoNot TurnOffYourMobilePhoneinMyLecturesiQlickers™ :ALowCostPersonalResponseSystem

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CHEM1111OrganicChemistry

AlbertWMLee

DepartmentofChemistry

Fall2012

CellPhonesONPlease

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Problems

• In a large‐size class, student‐student and student‐instructor interaction are low.

• When questions are posed, students’ responses are usually very passive.

• They are afraid to speak up.

• They try to avoid embarrassments.

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WaytoMotivateStudentsandEnhanceClassInteractions

Instructor poses question

Instructor poses question

Class votesClass votes

Give briefexplanationGive briefexplanation

(optional hint)(optional hint)

Students discuss withneighbors

Students discuss withneighbors

Give detailedexplanationGive detailedexplanation

Class votesClass votes

MajoritycorrectMajoritycorrect

Majority incorrectMajority incorrect

Via wireless PRSVia wireless PRS

Peer InstructionPeer Discussion

Eric Mazur

Throughthisiteratingprocess

• students can learn from each other

• Instructor can better understand how well the class is learning

• Students can comfortably send in their responses to a questions privately

• They can choose to remain anonymous

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LimitationsofPRSAvailableonMarket

~HK$ 18,000-25,000 for a 40-transmitter set

Every student has a powerful data transmitter hanging around their necks or inside the pockets !!

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Observations:

• 5 Major Mobile Service Providers in HK

• Roaming cost for SMS among providers

But…

• Intra‐network SMS (同台短訊)

• Charge:  Free, No Wi‐Fi

Here comes our iQlickers™ !

EquipmentforiQlickers™

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AdvantagesofiQlickers™

• Location Independent 

• No Wi‐Fi, Just SMS

• No Limitation on number of users

• Maintenance Free

• Low Cost

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上我的課

不要關掉手機

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iQlickers™is

• Un‐threatening

• Student‐friendly 

• Enabling Platform for Teaching & Learning

Location and Hardware IndependentNo Wi-Fi Just SMS

The best teachers are the students themselves

http://www.iqlickers.com

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