Clickers, also known as audience response systems are wireless hand-held devices used to conduct student participation in the classroom, often to credit attendance and measure understanding. This provides both student and instructor with valuable real time feedback.
In 2010-2011 we conducted an assessment of clicker use at Oregon State University. This investigation involved more than 80 clicker-using instructors from across the curriculum, several hundred students in pilot courses, core instructional support units, and peer institutions. The overall consensus result of these diverse stakeholders is that we should transition from Qwizdom to Turning Technologies as the centrally supported response system. We will share the assessment along with the feature matrix comparison of the major response systems available. This talk will go over the transition from Qwizdom to Turning, and then to the Cloud system in addition to clicker involvement at OSU consisting of: instructor training, clickers@osu workflow, scheduled class visits, instructor communications, turning communications, faculty senate, START = Enterprise Registration, extra-curricular use, assessment, and vendor research.
