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 ...

Qwizdom, a company that specializes in providing interactive classroom response systems, has made its way into University lecture halls. Since the University signed a five-year, $40,000 contract with ...

"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 ...

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 days when students could sleepwalk through their largest classes may soon be over. Along with the usual supply of textbooks and notepads, more and more professors are requiring that each of their ...

It’s every instructor’s conundrum. How do you know when the class truly gets what you’re teaching, or when you need to try a different approach? Mark Coykendall, a biology instructor at the College of ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Hand-held electronic devices called clickers are helping college students learn physics, according to a series of research studies. Ohio State University students who used the ...

Across the University of Colorado at Boulder campus students are sharing answers, checking their responses to questions against those of their neighbors and making adjustments to those answers in ...

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 ...

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, ...

FARGO - North Dakota State University has selected Ohio-based Turning Technologies to provide its campuswide student response clicker device beginning this fall. NDSU made the decision after a ...