SmartClassroom :: Wednesday, August 15, 2007

• 08/15/07

Case Study

University of Delaware Responds to Classroom Clickers

"Have you ever found yourself standing in front of your class in the middle of a lecture and wondering what in the world is going on in the minds of your students?"
--Douglas Duncan, University of Colorado, from the book, Clickers in the Classroom

By Linda L. Briggs

Any instructor who has had the experience Duncan describes can appreciate the idea of using clickers, or personal response devices, to gauge student participation and understanding. At the University of Delaware, with nearly 20,000 students, clickers are not only engaging students during class, they're starting to be used for homework assignments and as campus-wide polling devices....

News & Product Updates

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Tech Notes

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