An Internet-based Audience Response System for the Improvement of Teaching

TL;DR

This paper introduces ARSBO, an Internet-based audience response system that enhances teaching by enabling unlimited student participation and providing immediate feedback, overcoming the limitations of traditional systems.

Contribution

The paper presents ARSBO, a cost-effective, scalable, and user-friendly Internet-based response system that improves student engagement and feedback in educational settings.

Findings

ARSBO allows unlimited student participation.

It provides immediate feedback and statistical visualization.

It is easy to use and cost-effective.

Abstract

We have developed an Internet-based audience response system (called ARSBO). In this way we combine the advantages of common audience response systems using handheld devices and the easy and cheap access to the Internet. Evaluations of audience response systems in the literature have shown their success: encouraging participation of the students as well as immediate feedback to answers to the whole group for evaluational purposes of the teacher. However, commercial systems are relatively expensive and the number of students in such a teaching-learning scenario is limited. ARSBO solves these problems. Using the Internet (e.g. in computer rooms or by wireless Internet access) there are no special costs and the number of participating students is not limited. ARSBO is very easy to use for students as well as for the construction of new questions with possible answers and for the visualization of statistical results to questions.