Highlights from #NAIRTL11 (Part 1)
A couple of weeks ago I traveled to Ireland for the NAIRTL 5th Annual Conference & Galway Symposium on Higher Education, hosted …
Cheating, Facebook, Clickers, and More – Problems in a Harvard Life Sciences Course
I’ve been following the coverage of the alleged mass cheating in Harvard University’s Life Sciences 1b course. The Crimson, Harvard’s student newspaper, …
Using Clickers to Engage Students in the Classroom (10-Minute Video)
Back in May 2010, I led a webinar on teaching with clickers as part of the CIRTLcast series for the Center for …
Nuggets from the Joint Mathematics Meetings
Here are a few interesting ideas shared during the first set of talks about teaching with clickers at the Joint Mathematics Meetings …
Does Teaching with Clickers Foster Student Participation?
University of British Columbia professor of earth and ocean sciences Roland Stull recently gave his popular course on the science of storms …
Novice or Veteran?
My session on supporting faculty teaching with clickers at the POD Network conference last week went very well. In one of the …
Article: Mayer et al. (2009)
Reference: Mayer, R. E., Stull, A., DeLeeuw, K., Almeroth, K., Bimber, B., Chun, D., Bulger, M., Campbell, J., Knight, A., & Zhang, …
Leveraging Pre-Class Reading Quizzes
One of the questions I’m asked most often when I present about teaching with clickers is the “coverage” question: How do you …
More on the Classroom of the Future
Back in January, I blogged about a New York Times article describing MIT’s Technology Enhanced Active Learning (TEAL) classrooms. Just today, Diana …
Clickers in (Very Large) Economics Courses
Jennifer Imazeki teaches a 500-student microeconomics course at San Diego State University, and she recently blogged about her use of clickers in …