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OpenIRS-UCM: an open-source multi-platform for interactive response systems

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Carlos Garcia Sanchez,

Jose Antonio Lopez-OrozcoAuthors Info & Claims

ITiCSE '12: Proceedings of the 17th ACM annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2325296.2325352

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Interactive Response Systems (IRS) have been gaining acceptance within the educational community in recent years and a clear proof is the growing number of commercial systems available today in the market. However, most solutions are based on systems which are closed, rigid and dependent on proprietary keypad or platform. We have developed OpenIRS-UCM, a free teaching tool for interactive polling that solves these drawbacks. It is an open source software so it allows the development of new functions by anybody. It has a friendly interface that anyone without high computer skills can use. It enables the coexistence of several commercial clickers simultaneously with smart-phones, tablets or other modern electronic devices. It is developed in Java, thus its use is not restricted to systems based on Microsoft Windows and it is independent of any proprietary software.

The excellent acceptance of this teaching tool at University Complutense of Madrid has encouraged the creation of a repository that holds all the source code and executables files, in order to facilitate its widespread use.

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OpenIRS-UCM: an open-source multi-platform for interactive response systems
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Information systems education

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DOI:10.1145/2325296

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Blanchard JHott JBerry VCarroll REdmison BGlassey RKarnalim OPlancher BRussell SQuille KAlshaigy BBecker BQuille KLaakso M(2022)Stop Reinventing the Wheel! Promoting Community Software in Computing EducationProceedings of the 2022 Working Group Reports on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education10.1145/3571785.3574129(261-292)Online publication date: 27-Dec-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3571785.3574129
Natanael YRosmansyah Y(2020)Definitions, Features, and Technologies on Classroom Response Systems: A Systematic Literature Review2020 International Conference on Information Technology Systems and Innovation (ICITSI)10.1109/ICITSI50517.2020.9264981(221-225)Online publication date: 19-Oct-2020
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICITSI50517.2020.9264981
Lin LHung IKinshuk Chen N(2019)The impact of student engagement on learning outcomes in a cyber-flipped courseEducational Technology Research and Development10.1007/s11423-019-09698-967:6(1573-1591)Online publication date: 18-Oct-2019
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