ACRS: An Advanced Classroom Response System Architecture for Learning Enhancement

Classroom response systems have been envisaged to be one of the most useful e-learning technologies that have been notably employed to improve interactivity in classrooms. Students use state-of-the-art technology to convey their responses anonymously to the instructor´s questions. Analysing the responses is necessary to attain higher understanding of the lecture´s material by students. This paper describes the challenges of designing classroom response systems and proposes approaches to improve the classical classroom response system model. The classroom response system is improved by globally analysing various classroom response results and allowing educators to view the results to instantaneously identify various learning patterns. Furthermore, the paper suggests using a dynamic content management approach to update and change the lecture´s content seamlessly with the least amount of interference to the course of the lecture.