Last spring I received an e-mail message from my university’s Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching that read like an advertisement: “If you are thinking of ordering personal response system ...

"With clickers, you're giving every student a voice, even the introverts," according to Edna Ross, a resource teaching professor and the chair of the University Instructional Technology Committee in ...

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The students in Deone Zell’s Management 360 class were armed Monday night with more than just textbooks, pens and writing paper. The newest weapon in their educational arsenal? The Response Card XR, ...

The i>clicker2 is expected to be released in fall 2011. University of Massachusetts Amherst is formally adopting classroom clickers as part of its classroom technology offerings. The university will ...

Derek Bruff, whose new book on classroom “clickers” talks about teaching dos and don’ts for student-response systems. Clicker technology allows students to respond to questions during class using a ...

Remote transmitter technology is becoming more common in the classroom at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, but not without a learning curve for faculty members and some cost to students.

Coming this fall to a classroom near you: TurningPoint Cloud. What will this change mean for Miami faculty and students? Simple, easy-to-use accounts will be available. Enhanced login and file ...

An honors student at Ohio State, a kid in a fifth-grade science class in Kentucky and a deaf student in England all begin their learning experience the same way: with their hand wrapped around a ...

BERWICK -- Teachers in one district in Columbia County are using technology gadgets in the classroom to promote learning. With interactive questions and a Response Card Keypad, or clicker, some ...

Any gathering of technology specialists who work in education -- or educators who specialize in technology, as it were -- is bound to attract its share of gimmicks, gadgets and digital fads that won't ...