Interactive Studymate-Generated Electronic Study Aids: Do Students Find Them Useful as Learning Resources?

There are benefits to integrating interactivity and prompt feedback into instruction. Also, many of today\u27s students prefer electronic gaming and learning. Hence, the integration, into teaching, of interactive, game-based electronic learning resources that provide instantaneous feedback can be desirable from both student and instructor perspectives. A study was conducted at Georgia Southern University (Georgia, USA) in which electronic study aids (ESAs), in the form of ‘Flash Cards\u27, ‘Quizzes\u27, ‘Challenge Games\u27 and ‘Crossword Puzzles\u27, were made available to freshman-level chemistry students. At semester\u27s end, students completed an anonymous survey designed to determine how they used the ESAs, solicit their perceptions of the ESA\u27s effectiveness, and obtain feedback on their ESA preferences. The presenter will describe his motivations for using ESAs, briefly overview the program StudyMate ? , which was used to generate the ESAs, describe the study\u27s results, and describe the evolution of the place of ESAs in the instructor\u27s pedagogy