Clickers in the Classroom: Innovations and Best Practices
Conference Details!
Date: Friday, June 4, 2010
Time: 7:30 AM (continental breakfast/registration) - 4:30 PM
Location: Founder's Union Building, Shelby
Campus at ShelbyHurst, University of Louisville
Offered in cooperation with
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Join us in June 2010 for the 2nd Annual Clickers in the Classroom conference! This one-day event presents an exciting development opportunity for faculty and staff from across the country. 
Clickers in the Classroom: Innovations and Best Practices provides an opportunity for faculty and staff to:
- Share "best practices" in the use of classroom response systems.
- Discover strategies that encourage student engagement, deepen students' critical thinking and provide efficient methods for course assessment and evaluation.
- Participate in interactive sessions focused on the effective integration of classroom response technology in teaching and learning.
- Connect with regional and national colleagues in a professional development context.
Who Should Attend?
- Faculty who are currently using or interested in using classroom response systems as a teaching pedagogy.
- Administrators who want to learn more about classroom response system best practices and innovations to improve student retention and engagement.
- Others interested in learning more about uses of classroom response systems.
Fee: Only $175 ($150 for registrations submitted on or before April 15, 2010)
Continuing education units (CEUs) will be offered for this conference. Contact Dr. Marie Kendall Brown to learn more.
Sponsors
Clickers in the Classroom: Innovations and Best Practices is co-sponsored by the Delphi Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Louisville and i>clicker®. To learn more about i>clicker, visit the i>clicker homepage.
About Classroom Response Systems
Since the 1980s, the use of classroom response systems, or "clickers," has proliferated on college campuses across the United States. Faculty members from numerous disciplines use clickers for various purposes, depending on the goals of the course and the learning needs of the students. Clickers are used widely to assess the level of students' knowledge, both before introducing new material and after it has been taught; to enhance active learning strategies such as peer instruction or think-pair-share activities; to enhance class discussion on difficult subjects where anonymity of opinion is helpful; to obtain attendance or participation information; to gather feedback on teaching; and assist in testing and evaluation of students (Zhu, 2007).
In the past 25 years, articles on the scholarship of teaching with classroom response technology has increased dramatically. This conference will bring together scholars from across the United States to begin the process of using that literature and our collective experience in teaching with clickers to develop innovations and models of best practice for the use of audience response systems in the classroom.
