i-clicker Faculty Update

July 07, 2009
Academic Resources + Bryan College Community
Many of you are excited about incorporating the new i-clicker technology in to your classroom learning experience this fall.  The information on this page will help you get started.

If you were at the January 2009 faculty workshop, you saw the i-clickers in action.  If you missed that meeting and are unfamiliar with i-clicker, please visit the student i-clicker update page for more information.

Why i-clickers?

The use of classroom response systems (CRS) in higher education has more than a decade-long track record where research supports that incorporating their use into the classroom setting can significantly enhance the learning process.  Thousands of faculty members at hundreds of colleges and universities around the country are using CRS to
  • engage students in the learning process
  • facilitate classroom discussion by polling students on their knowledge, opinions, viewpoints and then using the results to direct the discussion around the results
  • use limited classroom time more effectively by assessing how much students already know so that you can spend more class time on what students don't understand and less on what they already know
  • automate mundane tasks such as maintaining a record of attendance, checking homework assignments, and administering class quizzes

How Do I Get Started?

  1. Download and print the Quick Start Guide.
  2. Sign up for a 90-minute live training session that you can attend from the comfort of your home or office at times that will accommodate your schedule.  After logging in to the training session website and dialing a toll-free number, you will sit in a training session where you can watch the presentation on your computer monitor, ask questions via your phone connection, and interact with the trainer and other professors from around the country.
  3. Review other helpful i-clicker website resources as you begin the process of developing content for your courses:
    • Get inspired by reading about how your peers at other institutions are incorporating i-clickers in a variety of disciplines.  Each link provides a PDF with helpful insights.
    • Check out these tools from the trenches that provide best practices and tips.
    • Review these published papers from a November 2008 CRS conference.