Title :
Using clickers in lectures to help identify and teach the control topics students find difficult
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Autom. Control & Syst. Eng., Univ. of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Abstract :
It is important that academic staff have a good awareness of the preparedness of their classes for new learning. This papers shows how clicker technology has been used both to help staff learn about student preparedness but also to encourage better engagement with learning of control related topics. Some of the data produced will be of generic interest to the community as it gives hard evidence of what is often suspected anecdotally.
Keywords :
control engineering education; teaching; clicker technology; control related topics learning; control topics teaching; student preparedness learning; Convergence; Education; Portable computers; Software; Steady-state; Transfer functions; interactive lectures; learning of prerequisites; student learning of control;
Conference_Titel :
Control (CONTROL), 2014 UKACC International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Loughborough
DOI :
10.1109/CONTROL.2014.6915198