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 ...

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, ...

Good that you have Michael Bugeja’s article on clickers (“Classroom Clickers and the Cost of Technology,” The Chronicle Commentary, December 5, 2008), and good that it sounds a warning about cost ...

With an increasing prevalence of technology in the classroom, some students may be one click closer to an A. More and more students are becoming familiar with clickers, electronic polling devices that ...

The standard shout of “here!” is slowly being replaced by the click of technology in some larger lecture halls. A growing number of professors are using clickers — electronic polling devices that ...

For those who don’t know, the clicker is fast becoming integral to the teaching of undergraduate college students and, to a lesser extent, middle school and high school students as well. Further, the ...

There is a new method of teaching that will help students overcome shyness and gain more confidence in class. “Clicking” is a way for students to answer questions in class without having to raise ...

NORMAL - Walk in to Craig McLauchlan's chemistry lecture any given day, and you'll find rows of Illinois State University students leaning over notebooks, pens in one hand and remote controls in the ...

Starting this semester, some professors at Victoria College have begun using what's known as a classroom response system - affectionately called clickers - to aid in classroom instruction. The ...