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Articles, Briefs and Reports
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)
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UCLA Mobile Web Framework: http://mwf.ucla.edu/?products/view/3 (Mobile)
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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Clickers
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Clickers in the Classroom: An Active Learning Approach
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January 1, 2007
Good Ideas Clickers in the Classroom: An Active Learning Approach Further research will determine whether clickers complement or surpass other active learning approaches in improving learni…
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Leveraging Technology to Advance Learning: A Pilot Study
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March 12, 2007
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2007
Discover how technology in the classroom positively impacts learning from both a student and a faculty perspective. A pilot study comprised of four courses augmented by one of four unique technolog…
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New ELI 7 Things... Brief Explores Open-Ended Response Systems
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January 19, 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 …
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"Clickers" in the Classroom: Analyses from the University of Wisconsin System Project
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October 11, 2006
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2006 Annual Conference
The University of Wisconsin System sponsored a major project to evaluate the interactive classroom technology known as student response systems or "clickers." This session will report on …
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Managing the Adoption of Clickers: Experiences of Several Universities
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October 10, 2006
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2006 Annual Conference
A popular, interactive classroom technology, called "clickers" or student response systems, is posing significant challenges for successful introduction on campuses. Representatives from …
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Classroom Technology Kind of Neat, But Also Expensive
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January 1, 2006
The author discusses how the new instructional technologies in higher ed have shifted the cost of instructional materials from the university to the students. …
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Purdue's System-Wide Deployment of a Classroom Response System
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March 14, 2006
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A session at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference 2006
A classroom response system is an electronic instructional system used by more than 40 instructors on the Purdue West Lafayette Campus encompassing approximately 9,000 students. Using eInstruction&…
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New Learning Technologies and Emergent Practices in Higher Education
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January 1, 2005
New technologies are changing how we teach and learn in classrooms as well as informal learning spaces. Techniques such as blogging, podcasting, and videoblogging once used by tight-knit groups o…
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Challenge, Potential, and Success: A University-Wide Approach to Classroom Response Systems
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October 21, 2005
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2005 Annual Conference
Engaging and assessing students in large lecture situations has always been challenging--until now. Purdue University's installation of an effective, supportable, and scalable classroom respon…
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Initial Assessment of a Classroom Personal Response System at Old Dominion University
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October 19, 2005
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2005 Annual Conference
Old Dominion University implemented a wireless, infrared personal response system (PRS) in several courses during the 2004-2005 academic year. This presentation will describe the system selection p…
