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CIRTLcast 5/12 – Classrooms Reconsidered: Engaging Students with Clickers
May. 5, 2010—From our colleagues at the CIRTL Network and CFT assistant director Derek Bruff: May 12: Classroom Reconsidered: Engaging Students with Clickers Wed May 12, 1 PM CT, Derek Bruff – 2p ET / 1p CT / 12p MT Classroom response systems (“clickers”) are technologies that enable teachers to rapidly collect and analyze student responses to...
University of Louisville Clickers Conference June 4 – Talks by VU’s Derek Bruff, Corbette Doyle, John Seibert
Mar. 29, 2010—The 2nd University of Louisville Clickers Conference will be held in Louisville, Kentucky, June 4th this summer. “Clickers” are handheld devices that allow students to respond synchronously to multiple-choice questions posed by their instructors. Distributions of responses are displayed on-screen to inform subsequent teaching choices and motivate discussion among students. CFT assistant director Derek Bruff,...
Derek Bruff Quoted in Associated Press Story on Clickers
Mar. 8, 2010—CFT assistant director Derek Bruff, author of Teaching with Classroom Response Systems, was quoted in an Associated Press story today by AP national education correspondent Eric Gorski on the choice between simple, dedicated classroom response systems (“clickers”) and more sophisticated, smart-phone-based systems. For more on teaching with clickers, visit the CFT’s teaching guide on the...
Recent Conference Talks by Derek Bruff on Teaching with Clickers
Jan. 22, 2010—CFT assistant director Derek Bruff recently gave a few conference presentations on teaching with classroom response systems (“clickers”). At the 2010 Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Francisco, January 13-15, Derek co-facilitated a minicourse on teaching math with clickers with Adam Lucas of St. Mary’s College of California. He also organized a contributed paper session on...
Active Learning in Hybrid and Physically Distanced Classrooms
Jun. 11, 2020—by Derek Bruff, Director If you’ve read Norman Clark’s hypothetical day in the life of a physically distanced classroom, then you’ve probably started to worry about how faculty and other instructors might facilitate discussion, group work, and other forms of active learning this fall. If I’m standing at the front of the classroom with half...
Assessing Student Learning
Nov. 19, 2019—by Michael R. Fisher, Jr. and Joe Bandy Print Version Cite this guide: Fisher, M. R., Jr., & Bandy, J. (2019). Assessing Student Learning. Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching. Retrieved [todaysdate] from https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/assessing-student-learning/. Overview What is student assessment and why is it Important? Forms and Purposes of Student Assessment Assessment is More than Grading Assessment...
Top Hat Week Is Here!
Jan. 28, 2019—by Derek Bruff, CFT Director It’s Top Hat Week at Vanderbilt! What does that mean? Well, we’re encouraging everyone teaching a class at Vanderbilt this week to try Top Hat, Vanderbilt’s in-class polling system. You can use Top Hat to pose a multiple-choice or free-response question to your students and have them respond using their...
Getting Started Teaching at Vanderbilt
Jun. 3, 2018—Teaching at a new institution, in an unfamiliar department, or even a new course can raise questions for new and experienced instructors alike. This page will succinctly address some of those questions with a short answer and a resource to consult or contact for further information. The Office of the Provost also maintains a collection of...
Learn about Top Hat, Vanderbilt’s NEW Classroom Response System
Jun. 20, 2017—Tuesday, June 27th 2-3pm If you have previously used TurningPoint or another classroom response system and plan to incorporate polling in your class this fall, then this demo session is for you! Top Hat is the first classroom response system to be adopted campus-wide at Vanderbilt. Top Hat will be available to faculty, students, and...
Top Hat Training Opportunity This Week!
Jun. 12, 2017—Thursday, June 15th 10:00 am Top Hat is the first classroom response system to be adopted campus-wide at Vanderbilt. Top Hat will be available to faculty, students, and staff across campus starting July 2017. Instructors teaching with “clickers” are invited to consider Top Hat for in-class student polling. In this web-based introductory session, Kara Dingboom,...