SAN FRANCISCO — In late May, Microsoft unveiled Bing, its new Internet search engine, in front of an audience of skeptics: technology executives and other digerati who had gathered near San Diego for an industry conference.
"I'm guessing that a lot of you are here today to see what the new look and new face of Yahoo is all about," he told an audience of some 1,500 technology enthusiasts at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week.
One particular pedagogical area which may be impacted upon by the use of audience response technology is that of threshold concepts.
As reviewed by Jones et al, the use of audience response technology adheres to many of Chickering and Gamson's principles of education [ 13]; in particular, the active approach to learning, prompt formative feedback, diverse learning styles, increased interaction and opportunities for reflection on knowledge [ 14].
For reasons of audience, technology and interface, each proved limited – and so the sense of value for players declined from delight to linear to threshold features (as in the Kano Model of User Satisfaction).
The selected journal articles are classified within the following dimensions: improvement focus, industry sector, target audience, project phase, stage of technology maturity, application area, comparison role, and technology.
The aim of this study was to investigate the use of audience response technology, specifically the KS, to engage NMP students in pharmacology teaching.
Very recently, Schlegel and Selfridge [ 38] reported the use of audience response technology to implement a team review game on the last day of a Dermatology course.
The use of audience response technology within a lecture promotes active learning, by engaging students with the learning process [ 18].
The use of audience response technology, to promote effective student learning is however supported by recent pedagogical research.
