This page is under construction, Aug 2009.

A summary of Tips for Successful Clicker Use is linked here, and it is downloadable in pdf format here.

It is based on research at the Univ. of Colorado, which has 17,000 clickers in use as of spring 2008, and elsewhere in the US, where over a million clicker are in use. The Tips address the misconception that clickers produce learning. Claiming that is like claiming "chalk produces learning" (remember chalk?).  But data clearly show that clickers can be used in a number of ways that augment teaching tremendously.  The data also show the most common causes of failure in clicker use, and those are in the Tips , too.

A 4 minute video showing the power of peer instruction and clicker use, with faculty and student interviews, produced by the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative, is here.

A cute 20 second video that shows how context affects meaning and understanding is linked here.

CU has a large, new, dynamic Physics Education Research group, famous for its outstanding on-line demonstrations (phet.colorado.edu) and varied research, including that of Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman who has devoted himself full time to education research.

This book is being revised, since we have learned so much about clicker use in the last 3 years.