Teaching Ideas

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General Resources (8)

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.

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://campustechnology.com/Articles/2005/03/TechnologyEnabled-Teaching-March-16-2005.aspx?Page=3
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

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
http://www.audienceresponseinfo.com/learning-by-remote-control/

Investigating the Effects of Group Response Systems on Learning Outcomes and Satisfaction in Accounting Education
http://accounting.uwaterloo.ca/research/publications/carnaghan_webb_aaa_working_paper.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 (1)

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

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 (18)

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://scitation.aip.org/journals/doc/PHTEAH-ft/vol_42/iss_4/253_1-div0.html

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://srri.umass.edu/files/gerace-1999uti.pdf

Designing Effective Questions for Classroom Response System Teaching
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/physics/pdf/0508/0508114v1.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://web.mit.edu/jbelcher/www/TEALref/Crouch_Mazur.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/

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/

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://www.stfm.org/fmhub/fm2004/July/T.496.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)