The use of 'Clickers' in the classroom: Teaching innovation or merely an amusing novelty?

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 556-561

  Lantz, Michael E ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active learning; Active responding; Effective instructing; Individual response technology

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; REMOTE CONTROL; STUDENTS;

ACTIVE LEARNING; ACTIVE RESPONDING; EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTING; PEDAGOGICAL TOOLS; TEACHING INNOVATIONS;

TEACHING;

EID: 77953594628     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2010.02.014     Document Type: Review

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