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 ...

Jeffrey Henriques initially introduced a classroom response system--a "clicker"--into his courses at the University of Wisconsin-Madison during fall 2004 to encourage students to participate in the ...

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 ...

Welcome back, Wildcats! A new year is upon us, and with that year comes new possibilities and opportunities, especially for college students – and new financial stress. Not only are tuition costs due, ...

The use of interactive classroom response systems—or ‘clickers,’ as they’re commonly known—is a rising trend in higher education, and UB is no exception. But what do UB students think about them? The ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is a guest post by Derek Bruff, assistant director at the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching and senior lecturer in mathematics at Vanderbilt. You can follow Derek on Twitter (@derekbruff) ...

Remote transmitter technology is becoming more common in the classroom at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, but not without a learning curve for faculty members and some cost to students.

Professor Ross Cheit put it to the students in his "Ethics and Public Policy" class at Brown University: Are you morally obliged to report cheating if you know about it? The room began to hum, but no ...