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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)
Library Items on this Topic
EDUCAUSE Library Items for Clickers
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An Investigation of the Effectiveness of Electronic Classroom Communication Systems in Large Lecture Classes
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January 1, 2005
Since 2002 we have been investigating the use of an electronic classroom communication system in large first year lecture classes. Handheld keypads were distributed to teams of students during a le…
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New for Back-to-school: 'Clickers'
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January 1, 2005
"Students in Ann Auleb's biology of human sexuality class at San Francisco State University are often shy about joining classroom debates on sensitive topics. But more students came out o…
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No Wrong Answer: Click It
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January 1, 2005
Faculty at hundreds of colleges and universities are using small electronic devices similar to television remote controls as part of their in-class instruction. Commonly referred to as "clicke…
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7 Things You Should Know About Clickers
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May 15, 2005
Interaction and engagement are often limited by class size and human dynamics (a few students may dominate the conversation while most avoid interaction). Interaction and engagement, both importa…
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How Am I Doing? Feedback in the Classroom
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March 7, 2005
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A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2005
Faculty and students alike want to know how they're doing. The Instructional Technology Group at Brown has armed faculty with easy-to-use technologies for instant feedback in class and ongoing…
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Networked Interaction and Class Engagement (NICE) with the Personal Response System (PRS)
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January 24, 2005
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A session at the NLII Annual Conference 2005
Using personal response system "clickers" in this interactive session, you will learn the fundamentals of this new learner-centered model for classroom engagement. We will discuss the tec…
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Interactive Teaching: Use of 'Clickers' (PRS) in the Classroom
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January 25, 2005
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A session at the NLII Annual Conference 2005
How can we provide our students with opportunities for interaction within the classroom? This hands-on session will model 'best practices' for Personal Response System use in first year p…
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Using Wireless PocketPCs in Survey Courses to Expand Discourse
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January 24, 2005
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A session at the NLII Annual Conference 2005
We are experimenting in earth systems classes at the University of Michigan with interactive challenges using wireless PocketPCs. Students respond to questions on the PocketPCs and initial response…
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Virtual Canvas: Enhancing Classroom Interaction
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October 20, 2004
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A session at the EDUCAUSE 2004 Annual Conference
Virtual Canvas is a pilot project integrating tablet PCs, Office 2003 systems, and wireless projectors (and other pen-applets) to bring interaction, both in and outside class, to a new level. This …
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Transforming Student Learning with Classroom Communication Systems
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February 3, 2004
Since 1993, the University of Massachusetts Physics Education Research Group (UMPERG) has developed curriculum and pedagogic techniques for use with classroom communication systems (CCSs) and has…
