Engaging taught postgraduate students with Physics communication

Engaging Students with Audio Feedback

Students express widespread dissatisfaction with academic feedback. Teaching staff perceive a frequent lack of student engagement with written feedback, much of which goes uncollected or unread. Published evidence shows that audio feedback is highly acceptable to students but is underused. This paper explores methods to produce and deliver audio feedback to a range of students engaged in a vari...

Engaging Postgraduate Students Undertaking Clinical Pharmacology Using GoSoapBox for Problem-Based Learning.

Engaging Postgraduate Students Undertaking Clinical Pharmacology Using GoSoapBox for Problem-Based Learning Engaging student cohorts in the classroom using teacher-centered learning approaches can be difficult (O’Donoghue, Jardine, & Rubner, 2010). Web-based student response systems (SRSs) used by students in the classroom can provide support for student participation in the class and enable an...

Honours and Postgraduate Students

Engaging students with clickers in language lessons

Background To engage students, researchers have been integrating clickers in classroom delivery for study. Clickers, also known as ‘personal response systems’[1], ‘student response systems (SRS), audience response systems (ARS), or personal response systems (PRS)’,[2] are a technology that allow students to respond to the teacher in real time and receive instant feedback from the teacher, thus ...

Engaging Software Engineering Students with Natural Numbers

According to Kronecker, a famous European mathematician, only natural numbers, i. e. positive integers like 1, 2, and 3... are given by God or belong to nature. All other numbers, like negative numbers, fractional numbers, irrational numbers, complex numbers, etc. , are creations of the human mind. It is important to notice that all these other numbers are created using the natural numbers. Nat...