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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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7 Things You Should Know About Open-Ended Response Systems: January 11, 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 op…
Clickers and CATs: Using Learner Response Systems for Formative Assessments in the Classroom: December 15, 2010

Key Takeaways Formative assessment can foster student retention and success by engaging students in their own learning process and helping instructors adjust to learners' needs in real…
Clicker Resources at the University of British Columbia: February 4, 2010

This University of British Columbia web site provides some resources to help instructors use clickers effectively in a classroom. Resources includes; an instructors guide, videos, questions coll…
SEI Clicker and Education Videos: February 4, 2010

These Clicker/Classroom Response System Videos were produced by the University of Colorado Science Education Initiative (CU-SEI) and the University of British Columbia Carl Wieman Science Educat…
Clicker Resource Guide: An Instructors Guide to the Effective Use of Personal Response Systems (Clickers) in Teaching: February 19, 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 comfortabl…
Technology and Learner Motivation in Library Instruction: A Study of Personal Response Systems (Research-Based): January 20, 2010 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2010
Negative student perceptions make learner motivation a special challenge in library instruction. Using Keller's ARCS model as a guide, we postulate that the use of personal response system (PR…
CATs with Clickers: Using Learner Response Systems for Formative Assessments in the Classroom (Innovative Practice): January 20, 2010 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2010
Classroom assessment techniques (CATs) are efficient and powerful ways for instructors to collect formative feedback from students to monitor and improve the learning process while a course is stil…
Enhancing Student Learning in a Graduate Research and Statistics Course with Clickers: December 22, 2009

Key Takeaways A quasi-experimental study investigated the influence on student engagement and performance, as well as student perceptions, of using clickers as an educational tool in a grad…
Clickers and Peer Instruction: A powerful way to improve student engagement and learning – but only if you do it right: October 5, 2009

Douglas Duncan shares his strategies and proven experiences in effectively using clickers in the classroom. Duncan has been using clickers at the University of Colorado, where over 17,000 clicke…
Can a $30 Piece of Plastic Improve Learning? An Evaluation of Personal Responses Systems in Large Classroom Settings: April 22, 2009

Encouraging active learning with students, especially in large classrooms, can be a challenge for faculty. The present study examines the effectiveness of personal response systems (PRS), a techn…