Providing the Missing Link

The University of Ohio has provided its departments a grant opportunity aimed at improving education through the use of technology.  This improvement looks to a number of issues, including providing educational opportunities to students “anyplace/ anytime.”  Poll Everywhere is one of the tools being used in the University’s pilot program for Stat145. 

Students within this statistics course are permitted to attend class either face-to-face, online with real-time broadcasted lectures, or recorded lectures viewed at their convenience.  An integral part of this course is the interaction of online students with the lecture in progress.  Poll Everywhere has provided that link for students online through their ability to deliver comments and questions to the professor during lectures.  This communication is made accessible through Poll Everywhere’s online and text methods.