Campus standard: In spring 2012, a committee of faculty and staff selected i>clicker as the campus standard clicker. The use of the campus standard clicker ensures that students may buy a clicker and use it in multiple classes. Beginning in Fall 2021, we are shifting from i>clicker classic to the newer and more flexible i>clicker cloud platform.
Clickers, also known as personal response systems, have been used extensively in many colleges in recent years. A growing body of evidence indicates that, when used appropriately, clickers can be effective in enhancing student engagement and learning.
Best practice:
The Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching offers various workshops and seminars. Spring semester workshops include:
The fastest-growing digital communication phenomena are location-based geosocial media and augmented reality. Geosocial platforms like Foursquare, Gowalla and SCVNGR find users checking in, connecting and exchanging information about sites from bars to beaches, cafes to college campuses. Even the biggest social media player is involved with the launch of Facebook Places. Augmented reality applications like Layar and Yelp provide additional layers of user-provided information projected onto the world around you.
Shashi Kanbur will report on the recent Council on Undergraduate Research Dialogues meeting in Washington DC and suggest a number of possible sources of federal funding, particularly in the sciences.
The large-class instruction faculty learning community is a group of faculty members that will meet regularly to discuss methods of more effectively encouraging student learning in a large-class environment. The meetings, though, are open to anyone interested in a particular topic. Some of the possible topics that may be considered this year include:
A panel considing of members of the Student Committee on Learning and Teaching (SCOLT) will present their views on: effective and ineffective classroom discussions, the quality of academic advising and the availability of faculty advisers, academic dishonesty, and disruptive classroom behaviors.
