Teaching Ideas

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General Resources (10)

7 Things you should know about clickers
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7002.pdf
"7 things you should know about … Clickers" provides concise information on clickers and its implementation in teaching and learning.

Twelve tips for using a computerised interactive audience response system
http://cidd.mansfield.ohio-state.edu/workshops/documentation/twelvetips.pdf
Robertson shares her tips for using clickers to transform large group teaching sessions into active learning experiences.

In Class, the Audience Weighs In
http://www.glenisgroup.com/CPSinNYT.pdf
This New York Times article presents various college professors’ clickers implementation experiences in courses taught in different subject areas as well as opinions of students attended those courses.

Students Use Clickers to Help Guide College Lectures
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/DyeHard/story?id=727409&page=1
This news article focuses on educational uses of clickers by providing a psychology professor’s clickers experience in large classrooms.

Transforming Student Learning with Classroom Communication Systems
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERB0403.pdf
This research bulletin presents the uses, benefits, and challenges of clickers in higher education as well as lessons learned from years of experience with clickers.

No Wrong Answer: Click It
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67530,00.html
This news article focuses on the uses and benefits of clickers in the classroom while presenting experiences of professors.

New for back-to-school: 'Clickers'
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1040_22-5819171.html
This news article addresses uses and benefits as well as concerns related to clickers from professor, student, and industry points of views.

CRS at Purdue: Promoting Campus-wide Student Involvement
http://www.campus-technology.com/news_article.asp?id=10787&typeid=156
This news article presents Purdue University’s reasons to implement clickers in the classroom as well as support and implementation issues at the institutional level.

How Remote Responders Affect Teaching
http://www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/einstruction/teachingprofessor.pdf
The author shares their experience of clickers implementation in Saint Mary University from administrative and instructional viewpoints

Effective Use of the Audience Response System: A Primer
http://library.cpmc.columbia.edu/cere/web/facultyDev/ARS_handout_2004_tipsheet.pdf
Created by Columbia University’s Center for Education Research and Evaluation, this paper provides excellent tips for implementing clickers in higher education courses including defining a clear purpose, designing effective questions, and designing effective clickers slides as well as tips for best practices.

Architecture (1)

INTICE - Interactive Technology to Improve the Classroom Experience
http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~ctalk/bulletin/intice.htm

Biological Sciences (7)

To Click Or Not To Click: That's The Question
http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=171

Classroom Performance System: Bio 365s: Vertebrate Physiology II
http://www.utexas.edu/academic/cit/gallery/utprofiles/cps/silverthorn/dee01A.html

Benefits of an Electronic Response System in a Biology Class
http://www.utexas.edu/academic/cit/gallery/utprofiles/cps/WoodsExpFacSem.ppt

Audience Response Made Easy: Using Personal Digital Assistants as a Classroom Polling Tool
http://www.jamia.org/cgi/reprint/M1468v1

Clickers: A Teaching Gimmick that Works
http://www.colorado.edu/MCDB/MCDB6440/ClickersDevCellC.pdf

New for back-to-school: 'Clickers'
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1040_22-5819171.html

Interactive Engagement with Classroom Response Systems
http://www.academiccommons.org/ctfl/vignette/Chaudhury-interactive-engagement

Business (4)

‘Learning By Remote Control’: Exploring The Use Of An Audience Response System As A Vehicle For Content Delivery
https://secure.ascilite.org.au/conferences/adelaide03/docs/pdf/739.pdf

Investigating the Effects of Group Response Systems on Learning Outcomes and Satisfaction in Accounting Education
http://www.learning.uwaterloo.ca/LIF/responsepad_june20051.pdf

Waking the Dead: Using interactive technology to engage passive listeners in the classroom
http://www.mhhe.com/cps/docs/CPSWP_WakindDead082003.pdf

Using a Personal Response System in Economics Teaching
http://www.economics.ltsn.ac.uk/iree/i1/elliott.htm

Communication (1)

Evaluating a Wireless Course Feedback System: The Role of Demographics, Expertise, Fluency, Competency, and Usage
http://comm-iis01.comm.ad.fsu.edu/faculty/comm/bunz/NCA2003cps.PDF

Education (2)

The Features and Potential of Interactive Response System
http://ccv.src.ncu.edu.tw/ccv/2003_ICCE_The%20Features%20and%20Potential%20of%20Interactive%20Response%20System.pdf

Student Response System in an Electronic Classroom: Technology Aids for Large Classroom Instruction
http://web.bsu.edu/tla/resources/news/1997-98/Nov1997A1.htm

Engineering (8)

Using CPS in Computer Sciences
http://www.utexas.edu/academic/cit/gallery/utprofiles/cps/EFS5.ppt

Using Interactive Technology in a Short Java Course: An Experience Report
http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~ctalk/bulletin/Iticse17.pdf

Exploring an Electronic Polling System for the Assessment of Student Progress in two Biomedical Engineering Courses
http://www.vanth.org/docs/008_2002.pdf

Formative Assessment In Physiology Teaching Using A Wireless Classroom Communication System
http://advan.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/26/4/299

Gauging Students' Understanding through Interactive Lectures
http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/~steve/ilig/papers/hcp1.pdf

INTICE - Interactive Technology to Improve the Classroom Experience
http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~ctalk/bulletin/intice.htm

Teaching Innovation Using A Computerised Audience Response System
http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~aupec/aupec02/Final-Papers/Q-SU1.pdf

Using classroom communication systems to support interaction and discussion in large class settings
http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~ctalk/bulletin/glasgow2.pdf

Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (1)

Real-Time Analysis of Student Comprehension: An Assessment of Electronic Student Response Technology in an Introductory Earth Science Course
http://www.nagt.org/files/nagt/jge/abstracts/Greer_v52n4.pdf

Humanities (2)

Using CPS in Masterworks of British Literature
http://www.utexas.edu/academic/cit/gallery/utprofiles/cps/cullingfordExpFacSem2.ppt

Using an electronic voting system in logic lectures: one practitioner’s application
http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/~steve/ilig/papers/stuartbrown.pdf

Law (1)

Taking Back the Law School Classroom: Using Technology To Foster Active Student Learning
http://www.mhhe.com/cps/docs/CPSWP_TechnologyActiveLearning.pdf

Mathematical and Physical Sciences (20)

A New Tool for Classroom Teaching: Wireless Class Performance System
http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~ctalk/talks/chiusataweb_files/frame.htm

Classroom Response Systems
http://umperg.physics.umass.edu/topics/crs

Using CPS in Physics Class
http://www.utexas.edu/academic/cit/gallery/utprofiles/cps/elevatorChiuExpFac.ppt

Gauging Students' Understanding through Interactive Lectures
http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/~steve/ilig/papers/hcp1.pdf

Tips for Using a Peer Response System in a Large Introductory Physics Class
http://www.physics.ubc.ca/~milnerm/MMB_Website/TPTpaperMilner.pdf

ASK•IT / A2L: Assessing Student Knowledge with Instructional Technology
http://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0508/0508144.pdf

Using Technology To Implement Active Learning In Large Classes
http://umperg.physics.umass.edu/library/Gerace_1999uti/view

Designing Effective Questions for Classroom Response System Teaching
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0508/0508114.pdf

Asking good questions in the mathematics classroom
http://www.math.cornell.edu/~GoodQuestions/Plenarytalkpaper.pdf

Wireless response technology in college classrooms
http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~ctalk/talks/woodschiu.htm

Peer Instruction: Ten years of experience and results
http://campus.umr.edu/newfac/nfts/current/calendar/presentations/MazurActiveLearning.pdf

Enhancing the Student-Instructor Interaction Frequency
http://www.uark.edu/misc/mbestm/pubs/thephysicsteacher.pdf

GoodQuestions Project at Cornell
http://www.math.cornell.edu/~GoodQuestions/

Learning from Past and Present: Electronic Response Systems in College Lecture Halls
http://www.aace.org/dl/files/JCMST/JCMST212167.pdf

Using Wireless Keypads in Lecture Classes
http://replysystems.com/pdfs/benefits/24.pdf

Teaching at UT
http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~ctalk/talks/itafall02web_files/frame.htm

An investigation of the effectiveness of electronic classroom communication systems in large lecture classes
http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet21/sharma.html

Interactive Engagement with Classroom Response Systems
http://www.academiccommons.org/ctfl/vignette/Chaudhury-interactive-engagement

Student Response System Project
http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~shapiro/SRS/

Educational Technology Update: Audience Response Systems Improve Student Participation in Large Classes
http://www.uctltc.org/news/2004/03/ars.php

Medicine (8)

Classroom Performance System: Bio 365s: Vertebrate Physiology II
http://www.utexas.edu/academic/cit/gallery/utprofiles/cps/silverthorn/dee01A.html

CPS in an Upper Division Physiology Course
http://www.utexas.edu/academic/cit/gallery/utprofiles/cps/eftc04dee.ppt

Formative Assessment In Physiology Teaching Using A Wireless Classroom Communication System
http://advan.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/26/4/299

Exploring an Electronic Polling System for the Assessment of Student Progress in two Biomedical Engineering Courses
http://www.vanth.org/docs/008_2002.pdf

Peer Instruction Improves Performance On Quizzes
http://advan.physiology.org/cgi/reprint/24/1/S51.pdf

Audience Response System: Effect on Learning in Family Medicine Residents
http://oregonstate.edu/itcc/wgs/ARS/ARS_study.pdf

Experiences of using an interactive audience response system in lectures
http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1472-6920-3-12.pdf

Use of an Audience Response System to Augment Interactive Learning
http://www.stfm.org/fmhub/fm2005/January/Robyn12.pdf

Nursing (1)

Learning a click away in VUSN nutrition class
http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=4372

Pharmacy (1)

An Interactive Response System to Promote Active Learning in the Doctor of Pharmacy Curriculum
http://www.ajpe.org/aj6805/aj6805117/aj6805117.pdf

Social and Behavioral Sciences (4)