It was well into the start of the semester at the University of Michigan, and Justin Lomont hadn't missed a single psychology lecture. Attendance was key because the instructor had all of the ...

"With clickers, you're giving every student a voice, even the introverts," according to Edna Ross, a resource teaching professor and the chair of the University Instructional Technology Committee in ...

Qwizdom, a company that specializes in providing interactive classroom response systems, has made its way into University lecture halls. Since the University signed a five-year, $40,000 contract with ...

Last spring I received an e-mail message from my university’s Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching that read like an advertisement: “If you are thinking of ordering personal response system ...

The days when students could sleepwalk through their largest classes may soon be over. Along with the usual supply of textbooks and notepads, more and more professors are requiring that each of their ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Hand-held electronic devices called clickers are helping college students learn physics, according to a series of research studies. Ohio State University students who used the ...

To outsiders, some classrooms at Brown might be confused with live tapings of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" as six professors this semester have opted to "ask the audience" using digital Personal ...

It’s every instructor’s conundrum. How do you know when the class truly gets what you’re teaching, or when you need to try a different approach? Mark Coykendall, a biology instructor at the College of ...

Welcome back, Wildcats! A new year is upon us, and with that year comes new possibilities and opportunities, especially for college students – and new financial stress. Not only are tuition costs due, ...

Across the University of Colorado at Boulder campus students are sharing answers, checking their responses to questions against those of their neighbors and making adjustments to those answers in ...

NORMAL - Walk in to Craig McLauchlan's chemistry lecture any given day, and you'll find rows of Illinois State University students leaning over notebooks, pens in one hand and remote controls in the ...