Active Learning Strategy Using Mobile Technologies

Active learning strategies represent an important approach to increase student learning. One of these strategies is the use of classroom response systems, also known as clickers, for testing the knowledge that students learned in previous lectures, for checking students’ understanding during the development of solutions to technical problems, for checking their understanding of the new concepts presented in class, and for personal or anonymous student surveys. This paper describes the use of hardware clickers in two technical courses, presents their advantages, identifies their limitations, and proposes a solution to reduce or eliminate restrictions through the use of soft clickers.