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Student Response System (SRS)/Wireless Response System (WRS) – a Next-Generation Student Response System for Academia and Industry

<27>The software, Student Response System (SRS) resulted from an EU funded project, Edumecca, consists of a set of advanced response technologies to provide services in effective learning. SRS is a web-based open source, and enables the storage, retrieval, visualization of response data automatically (Lu et al, 2010a, 2010b). SRS is used in industrial training and HE institutes in more than 15 EU countries and the USA. The services enable students to respond to their understanding interactively (Meng, Lu, 2011). The system is generic, adaptive, self-independent that can be integrated with other learning management environments like blackboard, Smart-board and subject oriented learning systems (Pascal Pein et al, 2009, 2010). Specifically, the SRS has been used in Hungarian Association of Welding Technology and Material Testing – MHtE (http://histproject.no/node/80). The institute distributed the SRS to 90 companies and 1000 people in welding communities (http://histproject.no/node/80). The results of SRS exploitation have been presented at the main welding events, including the European Welding Federation General assembly, the International Institute of Welding General Assembly, and 2 mayor international welding conferences in Europe (http://histproject.no/node/80). The SRS has been disseminated in international conferences, workshops, companies, schools, universities, including a demonstration of Student Response Services for iPod and iPhone in the largest International Conference in the world (about 2000 attendees) on Technology Supported Learning and Training EDUCA 2009, Berlin, Germany, December 3, 2009. SRS project as one out of 5 was invited to demonstrate it in EU stand in Berlin. Its success has also led to additional major funding streams for further research. An internationalized SRS by DO-IT project, also sponsored by EU, has been released in 2010 with EU languages in Hungarian, Romanian and English, recently released with Arabic and Chinese languages. Thus, the impact may be extended to mobile learning in Middle East and Far East users.