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 ...

"With clickers, you're giving every student a voice, even the introverts," according to Edna Ross, a resource teaching professor and the chair of the University Instructional Technology Committee in ...

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 ...

Math students at New Mexico’s Belen High School better pay close attention in class this fall. If they don’t, teachers will know. Belen, which serves a town by the same name about 40 miles south of ...

Imagine you’re a teacher. Think about grading each quiz and test. Wouldn’t it be great if quizzes could be graded instantly? What if there was a way to have every student respond to every question ...

It was well into the start of the semester at the University of Michigan, and Justin Lomont hadn't missed a single psychology lecture. Attendance was key because the instructor had all of the ...

If not for their eye-catching shade of blue, the small, plastic oblongs would be unnoticeable amid the clutter of papers, book bags, and purses on and around the desks in Kenneth McCreary’s English ...

Wouldn’t you think that a university classroom would be the last place that kids would be allowed to push buttons on electronic devices that they hold in their hands for the entire length of the class ...

Math students at New Mexico’s Belen High School better pay close attention in class this fall. If they don’t, teachers will know. Belen, which serves a town by the same name about 40 miles south of ...