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Title:
Integrating Advances in Technology and Education: Using an Audience Response System (ARS) to Create Interest and Enhance Learning
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MedEdPORTAL ID#:
805
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Version:
1
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Resource Type:
Faculty Development Materials
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Description:
This workshop is designed to answer the question: How can you use an audience response system (ARS) to create interest and enhance learning in ways that are consistent with what we know from the literature about how people learn? It integrates literature on the use of ARS in education and on how people learn; recent advances in both technology and education.
Use of ARS in education is growing. The literature indicates that using an ARS can have a positive impact on enthusiasm, attendance, problem-solving, student performance, retention, and overall learning effectiveness. The focus of this workshop is on crafting and critiquing questions which will work well with an ARS and be effective tools for enhancing learning. This complements existing literature which tends to deal largely with using the technology and the outcomes of its use, rather than on what specific characteristics make its use effective for learning.
Participants will be actively engaged in discussing pros and cons of using an ARS, identifying examples of major purposes for using an ARS in education, applying educational principles to the development of effective ARS questions, and critiquing ARS questions based on established criteria.
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Author Institution:
University of New Mexico School of Medicine
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Primary Author:
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Deana M. Richter, MA
University of New Mexico School of Medicine
Teacher & Educational Development
MSC08 4540, 1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque,
NM
87131-0001
USA
505-272-5858
drichter@salud.unm.edu
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Other Authors:
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Steve
Mitchell, MD
University of New Mexico School of Medicine
smmitchell@salud.unm.edu
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Resource File(s):
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Additional Resource File Information:
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1.zip file containing four of the following resource files:
1.) ARS.pps
2.) ARS_Workbook.pdf
3.) ARS_Workshop_Leaders_Guide.pdf
4.) The_Circle_of_Learning.pdf
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AAMC Hot Topics:
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Medicine: Communication Skills
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Content Last Updated:
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| 07/20/2007 |
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Specialty/Discipline:
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Medicine: Undergraduate Medical Education
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Educational Objectives:
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1.) To be able to describe who is using ARS in higher education and the outcomes of its use reported in the literature.
2.) To be able to identify examples of the major purposes of using ARS questions in teaching/learning activities.
3.) To be able to apply literature-based principles of how people learn to create ARS questions that effectively facilitate learning.
4.) To be able to critique ARS questions based on established criteria.
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Resource Keyword/Symptom:
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Educational Technology
Audience Response System
Personal Response System
Educational Technology (MeSH)
Active Learning
Audience Participation
Questions
Faculty Development
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Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Competencies Addressed:
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Intended Learner Audience:
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Medical Fellows
Medical/Dental Residents
Continuing Medical/Dental Education (CME) for Faculty Self Learning
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Intended Faculty Audience:
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Basic Science Faculty
Clinical Science Faculty
Basic Science Course Director
Clerkship Director / Clinical Science Course Director
Residency Program Directory
Medical/Dental School Administrators (broadly defined)
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Peer Reviewed Elsewhere:
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| Yes |
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URL of Journal or Collection:
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| Submitted, accepted, and presented as a workshop at the Western Group on Educational Affairs Annual Meeting, AAMC. |
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Effectiveness and Significance of Publication:
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This workshop is the most recent iteration of one that has been implemented as a core teaching skills development course offered numerous times at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and as a workshop at the Western Group on Educational Affairs (WGEA). The decision to submit it to MedEdPORTAL came as a result of a comment from a participant at the WGEA, who asked if we were planning to publish it, noting a dearth of information in the literature on how to use an ARS in educationally-sound ways. Evaluations indicate that the workshop has been quite successful, per participants' perceptions of their pre- and post-workshop levels of proficiency, in achieving its objectives. Participants have also indicated in very large measure that the organization and method of learning are effective and that they will be able to incorporate this learning into their teaching. What participants have indicated they found particularly effective are the hands-on experience, the workbook, and the organization of materials.
Submission Image: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en
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Special Implementation Requirements or Guidelines:
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| It is highly recommended that an audience response system (ARS) be used during the workshop as the means of answering questions posed in the PowerPoint presentation (even though lower tech methods such as colored cards or raising hands could be used), thereby demonstrating how use of an ARS can create interest and enhance learning (modeling the process). The facilitator needs to be skilled in using an ARS and computer projection system (for PowerPoint) and be familiar with "The Circle of Learning," a conceptual model developed to synthesize recent literature on how people learn. This is provided with workshop materials as a reference document. |
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Lessons Learned:
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| We learn something every time we facilitate the workshop, based on participant feedback and self-reflection, and have consistently made refinements. We learned that our objectives and our participants' have not always matched. Our primary objective relates to using an ARS in educationally sound ways. Participants want to know how to use the technology and may think they don't need the educational part. We have learned how to integrate and balance both objectives in a way our participants find useful by modeling use of the ARS, having participants input questions they develop and then use the system to ask them to the group. Initially, the workshop was 2 hours in length. However, this initial time frame was insufficient to do all of this and provide hands-on practice developing and critiquing questions, so we increased it to 2.5 hours. We also discovered that an ARS is best used to trigger discussion, not displace it. We built in more participant discussion, rather than relying solely on answers to ARS questions. There are also some technological considerations. Various brands of ARS have some significant technological and implementation differences. Any ARS has technological limitations that constrain the types of questions presented with it. To address this, we developed examples of questions that fit the ARS technology using both Fink's and Bloom's taxonomies of learning. We also created a criteria-based checklist for evaluating questions for use with an ARS. Finally, we learned that even good training won't make up for an ARS which is not user friendly. Although our initial system was on the cutting edge when we purchased it, it was not intuitive to use and many faculty who were sincerely interested found learning to use it too great an obstacle. We have recently purchased a new system that is native to PowerPoint and much simpler to use, and we are hopeful that there will be a resurgence of interest in using ARS to activate learning, especially in large group settings which are traditionally didactic. |
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Publications, Presentations, and/or Citations For This Publication:
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| This was a workshop presentation at the Western Group on Educational Affairs Regional Conference held in Honolulu, Hawaii, in April 2007: "Integrating Advances in Technology and Education: Using the ARS to Generate Interest and Promote Learning." "The Circle of Learning" conceptual model has also been embedded in other workshop presentations, including "How People Learn" presented at WGEA in 2006 and "How People Learn: An Evidence-Based Approach to Developing Faculty Teaching Skills," an IME exhibit at AAMC in 2005. |
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Sponsorship (Funding Source):
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| Teacher Educational Development at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine (institutional funding only; not supported by any outside sources. |
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Citation Formats:
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NLM:
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Richter D , Mitchell S,
Integrating Advances in Technology and Education: Using an Audience Response System (ARS) to Create Interest and Enhance Learning. MedEdPORTAL;
2008.
Available from: http://services.aamc.org/30/mededportal/servlet/s/segment/mededportal/?subid=805
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APA:
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Richter, D., Mitchell, S.,
(2008).
Integrating Advances in Technology and Education: Using an Audience Response System (ARS) to Create Interest and Enhance Learning. MedEdPORTAL:
http://services.aamc.org/30/mededportal/servlet/s/segment/mededportal/?subid=805
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