This collection is the first book about audience response systems which, typically, allow each student in a group to vote in real time, choosing one of several options using the buttons on a handset. ....My own experience of using voting systems, both electronic and manual, is that they can transform the teaching-learning situation. In the last 10 years learning technology, ot e-learning, had concentrated on online support and interactions, but many teachers and students want face-to-face contact. An ARS makes possible new types of communication in the classsroom, just as online services do outside the classroom. ARS seem likly to become a significant tool in enhancing the face-to-face learning experience. We may one day wonder how we taught without one.
– Stephen Bostock, Educational Development, published May 2006, Issue 7.2
Banks provides both novice and experienced user of educational technology information on everything from hardware to various pedagogical methods in this useful edited volume. Each chapter is written by authors who have first hand experience with the technology. This book contains many helpful examples of how technology can be used to imporve student learning in a variety of contexts.
– R.K. Eubank, St Mary’s University of Minnesota in Choice Vol 44, No. 5 (2007)