Classroom response systems in higher education: Meeting user needs with NetClick

Abstract

Classroom response systems (CRS) have been shown to dramatically improve a variety of learning outcomes in science and engineering education. Their adoption in research university classrooms has been very slow. This paper postulates a contributing factor to the lack of widespread adoption of CRS in that context and introduces a new CRS designed to mitigate the identified factor. The CRS, NetClick, is built on the premise that the requirement of authoring new content prevents many Professors from using existing CRS. After describing the operation and advantages of NetClick to other CRS, we describe initial feedback from Computer Science Professors on its use for converting existing teaching slides into interactive content.