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Saturday, October 05, 2002
http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=6773 Wireless Interactive Teaching Simulations Sheryl B. Ball, Catherine C. Eckel, Kevin M. Oliver Undergraduate lecture courses at many institutions of higher education are quite large, making it difficult to actively involve students and maintain their attention. Ongoing and current budget crises make it difficult to hire additional instructors and reduce class sizes to levels that would allow for more faculty-student or student-student interaction. Wireless interactive teaching simulations (WITS) are seen as one solution to this dilemma. By leveraging emerging wireless technologies and low-cost, hand-held computing devices, we are attempting to integrate more interactive learning experiences into the very large classroom....
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