Resumen de OpenIRS-UCM: an integral solution for interactive response systems
José Antonio López Orozco, Carlos Garcia, Fernando Castro, Jose I. Gómez, Daniel Ángel Chaver Martínez
During the last years many different tools have appeared devoted to facilitate the communication between teachers andstudents in a classroom. Most of these solutions, commonly referred to as Interactive Response Systems, are closed, toorigid, and in many cases too expensive for educational institutions. In this work we present an extended and improvedversion of the OpenIRS-UCM application, a free, easy to use and open source tool which supports diverse clickers, can berun in different platforms (Windows, Linux and MacOS) and is totally integrated with the well-known Moodle LearningManagement System. We evaluate the OpenIRS-UCM application in terms of various software quality metrics (programcomplexity and usability), the level of acceptance currently achieved and its potential adoption in real life settings. Also, weperform an exhaustive comparison of the features that our application provides to those of various commercial tools,which reveals that OpenIRS-UCM exhibits many advantages over other major IRS players. Finally, we detail how our toolrepresents a remarkable advance in the research areas of engineering learning systems and engineering assessment.
