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GoSoapBox Classroom Response System Engages Students EDUCAUSE Review Online. November/December 2012. This case study explores the use of a classroom response system in Spanish language classes that seemed too small to benefit from the approach.

Clickers in the Classroom: Transforming Students into Active Learners, ECAR Research Bulletin, 2011. This research bulletin discusses a program at the University of South Carolina to implement SRSs in the classroom and to study the impacts that the technology has on student outcomes. In our research, we also looked at the challenges that SRSs pose, both to students and to faculty members, and investigated best practices for using this technology.

Clicker Implementation Models, EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2011. Clickers require a significant economic investment; deciding who pays is a key issue that gives rise to two implementation models: institution-pays and students-pay.

Clicker Resource Guide: An Instructors Guide to the Effective Use of Personal Response Systems (Clickers) in Teaching, 2010. This guide was written to help instructors understand the answers to these questions, and to help them use personal response systems ("clickers") in their classes in the most comfortable and pedagogically effective manner.

7 Things You Should Know About Open-Ended Response System, January 2011. An open-ended student response system is an electronic service or application that lets students enter text responses during a lecture or class discussion. Open-ended systems give faculty the option of collecting such free-form contributions from students, in addition to asking the true/false or multiple-choice questions that conventional clicker systems allow.

Clickers, Mobile and Web App Polls

Celly: http://cel.ly/ (Mobile, Text and Web)
ClassPager: https://www.classpager.com/ (Mobile and Text)
eClicker: http://www.eclicker.com/ (Mobile: iPhone and iPad)
Google Moderator: http://www.google.com/moderator/ (Mobile and Web)
iClicker: http://www.iclicker.com/products/webclicker/ (Clicker and Mobile)
iPAL: http://www.compadre.org/ipal/webdocs/About.cfm NGLC grant funded (Mobile and Web)
iReponse App: http://iresponseapp.com/ (Mobile: iPad, iPhone, iPod and Web)
Lecture Tools: http://www.lecturetools.com/ (Mobile)
Pingo: http://wiwi.uni-paderborn.de/en/dep3/winfo2/research/projects/paderborner-peer-instruction/ (Mobile and Web)
Poll Everywhere: http://www.polleverywhere.com/ (Mobile, Text and Web)
Qwizdom: http://www.qwizdom.com/education/qvr.php (Clickers and Web)
Socrative: http://www.socrative.com/ (Mobile and Web)
Top Hat Monocle: http://www.tophatmonocle.com/ (Mobile and Web)
Turning Technologies: http://www.turningtechnologies.com/ (Clicker, Mobile and Web)
Ubiquitous Presenter: http://up.ucsd.edu/ (Mobile)
UCLA Mobile Web Framework: http://mwf.ucla.edu/?products/view/3 (Mobile)

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The Horizon Report in Action: Emerging Technologies Today and Tomorrow: March 27, 2013

Wondering what’s new in mobiles, electronic books, learning analytics , and other emerging technology areas? Join Malcolm Brown and Veronica Diaz of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative as t…
The Beginning of Something Big: March 7, 2013

Thanks to MOOCs, online learning has gained worldwide attention from academic leaders, trustees, legislators, and the media. The power of technology enables massive scale and allows learning and …
Data Privacy Month: Are You Smarter Than Your Phone?: January 9, 2013

Nearly everyone on a college campus today has a mobile phone, capable of accomplishing amazing tasks while on the go. But, how SHOULD you make use of your smartphone? You are smarter than your ph…
Rolling Out a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) Program: June 5, 2012

Use of personally owned devices continues to grow on campuses. If we don’t support these devices , community members will find their own way to support them, which could put our networks…
The Horizon Report in Action: Emerging Technologies Today and Tomorrow: March 5, 2012

Wondering what’s new in mobiles, electronic books, learning analytics , and other emerging technology areas? Join Malcolm Brown and Veronica Diaz of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative as they…
eTexts: A Perishable Opportunity for Higher Education?: January 24, 2012

What role, if any, should colleges and universities play in the shift from print to digital textbooks (eTexts) ? One perspective is that eTexts are a consumer transaction between a publisher …
ECAR National Study of Undergraduates and Information Technology, 2011: December 15, 2011

The EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR) has experienced a groundbreaking year in 2011, with an aggressive research agenda implementing two versions of its annual National Study of Underg…
Mobility at Ole Miss: An Evolving Strategy: December 7, 2011

Those who work in a university setting are aware of mobile devices and their potential for enhancing campus life. In response, vendors are offering mobility solutions that claim they can address…
A Conversation with CIOs on Current Campus IT Initiatives and Trends: August 9, 2011

Join leading CIOs in a conversation about their current campus IT issues and initiatives. Hear and discuss the institutional challenges CIO and Senior IT Leaders are facing related to administ…
Spotlight on Mobile Computing: The Mobile Difference: July 14, 2011

In this interactive session, Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, will discuss the project’s latest findings about how people use mobile …