Feedback System for Pedagogy Refinement in Lectures

Abstract

In spite of the best efforts of educators to introduce active learning techniques, classrooms still remain largely instructive in nature. As teachers usually take feedback at the end of the semester, their efforts whether have been fruitful or not remains unanswered at times. Learning is a process of every lecture, which is why we have developed a unique audience response system to improve the feedback in such a large instructive classroom. We have built a feedback system for teachers which enables them to get the cognitive state as well as the affective state of students during a lecture. The android app allows students to voluntarily indicate the understanding of the lecture on four key parameters -difficult, easy, boring and engaging in real-time.