Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
Date of this Version
2010
Citation
Essays on Teaching Excellence: Toward the Best in the Academy (2009-2010) 21(4)
A publication of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
Abstract
Three ongoing challenges for those of us teaching today’s college students, especially in large lecture classes, are: getting students engaged in their learning, assessing what learning is actually taking place, and competing with students’ technology in keeping their attention. One teaching innovation that holds great promise for addressing these concerns is the use of personal response systems, also known as clickers. Clickers allow you to determine the level of student understanding at any given time with relatively little effort, and in the process encourage students to engage with class material by using the hook of technology. In this paper I describe a few examples of ways instructors use clickers to accomplish these ends (for reviews see Caldwell, 2007, and Bruff, 2009).
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Comments
Copyright 2010, Linda C. Hodges. Used by permission