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PINGO: Peer Instruction for Very Large Groups

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21st Century Learning for 21st Century Skills (EC-TEL 2012)

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In this research, we introduce a new web-based solution that enables the transfer of the widely established Peer Instruction method to lectures with far more than 100 participants. The proposed solution avoids several existing flaws that hinder the widespread adoption of PI in lectures with larger groups. We test our new solution in a series of lectures with more than 500 participants and evaluate our prototype using the technology acceptance model. The evaluation results as well as qualitative feedback of course participants indicate that our new solution is a useful artifact to transfer the PI method to large groups.

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  1. Department of Computer Science Computer Science Education Group, University of Paderborn, Fuerstenallee 11, 33102, Paderborn, Germany

    Wolfgang Reinhardt, Michael Sievers & Johannes Magenheim

  2. Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Information Management & E-Finance, University of Paderborn, Warburger Straße 100, 33098, Paderborn, Germany

    Dennis Kundisch & Philipp Herrmann

  3. Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Business and Human Resource Education II, University of Paderborn, Technologiepark 9, 33100, Paderborn, Germany

    Marc Beutner

  4. Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Business and Human Resource Education, University of Paderborn, Technologiepark 9, 33100, Paderborn, Germany

    Andrea Zoyke

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  1. CASS School of Education and Communities, University of East London (UEL), Stratford Campus, Water Lane, E15 4LZ, London, UK

    Andrew Ravenscroft

  2. Knowledge Management Institute and Know-Center GmbH, Graz University of Technology (TUG), Inffeldgasse 21a,, 8010, Graz, Austria

    Stefanie Lindstaedt

  3. Departamento Ingenieria Telemática, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Avenida Universidad 30,, 28911, Leganés (Madrid), Spain

    Carlos Delgado Kloos

  4. Information and Communitations Technologies Department, Universitat Pompeu Fabra,, Roc Boronat 138, 08018, Barcelona, Spain

    Davinia Hernández-Leo

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Reinhardt, W. et al. (2012). PINGO: Peer Instruction for Very Large Groups. In: Ravenscroft, A., Lindstaedt, S., Kloos, C.D., Hernández-Leo, D. (eds) 21st Century Learning for 21st Century Skills. EC-TEL 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7563. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33263-0_51

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