With an increasing prevalence of technology in the classroom, some students may be one click closer to an A. More and more students are becoming familiar with clickers, electronic polling devices that ...

This isn’t your typical science lecture. Around me, more than 80 students talk loudly with each other while a teaching assistant circulates through the room. Roland Stull, a professor of earth and ...

Despite attempts to standardize clickers and make them user-friendly, a gap still exists between the benefits for students and the advantages for their professors. Sherry Clouser, an academic ...

ASUA Sen. Chad Travis is working to make the UA a one-clicker university. The standardization of classroom responders, colloquially known as clickers, is Travis’ main focus, and a project that ...

For those who don’t know, the clicker is fast becoming integral to the teaching of undergraduate college students and, to a lesser extent, middle school and high school students as well. Further, the ...

On a warm Wednesday afternoon, Assistant Professor Jeffrey Schmidt walks into his Principles of Marketing lecture hall. He walks up to the table in front of the hall, loads up the slides for the day ...

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 ...

There is a new method of teaching that will help students overcome shyness and gain more confidence in class. “Clicking” is a way for students to answer questions in class without having to raise ...

ORLANDO -- To some academics, clickers are a great new technology, allowing professors to measure instantly whether students in a large class are grasping new concepts (or are even in class). To ...

Remote transmitter technology is becoming more common in the classroom at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, but not without a learning curve for faculty members and some cost to students.

Tired of trying to teach your old dog a new trick? Try training a chicken instead. The Avian Medical Center in Lake Oswego began offering their popular "Clickin' Chicken" training classes in May 2008, ...

RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA Does your pooch know basic commands? Would you and your dog be happier if he or she did? A popular dog obedience class kicked of Saturday at the Bell Tower Regional Community ...