Enhancing the student experience through in class technologies

City University kindly hosted this meeting to consider organising a Special Interest Group on the subject of classroom voting systems. We hope to facilitate an online community and informal events to build a knowledge of good practice and promote appropriate use. Case studies, research and evaluation are on possibilites, but the group agreed to begin with a light touch approach. deciding on a title for the group was tricky, but important. There is a lot in a name. Objectives were easy to decide.

While the initial focus is on voting systems, I was pleased that we kept the brief more open to potentially include other technologies that engage students in face to face teaching sessions, be they mobile or less high tech voting (coloured cards or cubes).