Welcome to Clickers at Penn State
A new student response--a.k.a. clicker--system, i>clicker, has been selected for classroom use at the University Park campus beginning fall 2011. Information Technology Services (ITS) selected i>clicker following a classroom pilot of two clicker systems during the spring semester. The i>clicker system will be installed in all ITS-managed technology classrooms. Pedagogical uses of clickers include gauging student knowledge on a topic, providing instant feedback, improving class interaction and participation, and promoting more thoughtful discussion.
Training & Support
About i>clicker
i>clicker began when a team of University of Illinois physicists, inspired by a major curriculum reform based on physics education research, began experimenting with many solutions that facilitated student polling--from flash cards to their very own hand-crafted clickers. With the resources of Macmillan supporting their inventions, they built i>clicker--a classroom response system that is easy-to-learn, easy-to-use, and unfalteringly reliable. In less than two years, i>clicker has been adopted by thousands of higher ed faculty and used by more than 500,000 students in North America.
