One type of technology that I would love to try out is the student response system (SRS), which allows instructors to record students' responses to instructor-posed questions and to summarize and present the data visually. Here are a couple of relevant web sites:
http://clte.asu.edu/wakonse/ENewsletter/studentresponse_idea.htm http://cit.duke.edu/ideas/tools/response.do Miguel -------------- Original message -------------- From: "Scheuchenpflug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Dear tipsters, > > our department currently has some funds available to improve teaching in > Psychology and asked for proposals. I am currently teaching the statistics > and methods courses. From my perspective most options are quite obvious > (providing more student assistants for tutorials, more public computing > facilities in close proximity, extra courses teaching the use of statistical > software, special literature in the local branch of the library etc.), but > in order not to overlook promising alternatives: > > What would be on your list in this case? > > BTW: I dimly remember some exchanges on TIPs regarding specialized software > for teaching which provides an integrated tool for participant management, > grade reporting, tests and discussion fora, but could not find the mails in > the archives. If some of you have experience with such software, could you > please provide a comment? We are currently doing these things separately, in > a combination of email, spreadsheets, web based fora and homepages. > > I will collect the answers and repost them in condensed form to the list. > > Thanks in advance, > > Rainer > > Dr. Rainer Scheuchenpflug > Lehrstuhl f. Psychologie III > Roentgenring 11 > 97070 Wuerzburg > Tel: 0931-312185 > Fax: 0931-312616 > Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --- > To make changes to your subscription go to: > http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english > > --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
