Clickers R Us: A Technology Approach for Assessing Online Learning in the Classroom for Blended Learning Courses

Blended learning integrates online delivery of materials through web pages, discussion boards, and/or e-mail with traditional teaching methods including lectures, guided discussions, seminars, or tutorials. In blended learning, specific course material is outsourced to textbook or online learning. When students are brought back to the classroom to apply what they learned online, the instructor\u27s immediate goals are to: (a) assess the individual gains of online learning, (b) review critical material, and (c) provide formative feedback. The paper explains how a classroom response system can provide an interactive classroom environment to accomplish these goals quickly and interactively. The authors present data from two courses where classroom response systems were effectively used for assessment, review, and feedback