UMBC's Instructional Technology team will share how our institution has piloted a clickerless audience response system (ARS) to enhance students learning, inclusion, and engagement across the institution, sharing specific examples of how polling activities have enriched class discussions, student engagement, and assessment.
Join us as the UMBC Instructional Technology team shares how our institution has piloted a clickerless ARS to enhance student learning and engagement. In this session, we’ll explore how polling activities have enriched class discussions, student engagement, and assessment at UMBC. We’ll share strategies to integrate ARS activities to enhance interactions in large classes and across various teaching modalities.
The session will begin with an overview of the launch of UMBC’s ARS pilot and institutional shift to a clickerless ARS model. We will share the pilot timeline and support we’ve provided to faculty through the pilot process. We’ll highlight the training and other professional development designed to support faculty and to create opportunities for sharing effective practices and building greater expertise.
Next, we will share examples of how instructors use ARS across disciplines at UMBC. We will discuss how instructors can use ARS to facilitate just-in-time teaching and adjust their learning activities based on real-time feedback from their students. We’ll highlight ARS use in UMBC courses to meet the following goals:
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Enhancing formative assessment systems to start class conversations, check student understanding of concepts, reinforce learned concepts, and provide faculty feedback on their teaching effectiveness;
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Strengthening student-centered teaching approaches focusing on eliciting ‘just in time’ student-driven teaching topics allowing faculty to refine content to respond to student interests;
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Promoting faculty-student interaction across hyflex teaching modalities to seamlessly connect in-class and remote participants.
Following a discussion of ARS, we’ll review our lessons learned, challenges related to ARS tool adoption, and considerations for the future of ARS at UMBC.