Many educators, like us, are passionate about the use of Response Systems, Active Learning and Business Education. Here we list a selection of the many resources, commentaries and links available. Some are listed in more than one section for the sake of refining relevance.
Business Education
The Financial Times, Business Education. Home of the FT business school rankings and great articles, discussions and links about global business education, past, present and future.
Bloomberg Business Week. More school rankings, profiles, articles and comments.
BizEd "The Leading Voice of Business Education"
Leading into Battle, Rebecca Ray in Writing for HR. Consideration of experiential learning benefits for training leaders
Leadership Lessons from the Sims Michael A. Roberto 2009 in Chief Learning Officer. An engaging article outlining the benefits of simulations for teaching soft skills and how to make decisions in complex, dynamic environments.
Business simulations in small business management education: using principles and ideas from actions learning. From Action Learning: Research and Practice Journal, Jonas Gabrielsson, Joakim Tell, Diamanto Politis. An article on how business simulations may act "as a potential bridge between the safe harbour of traditional classroom teaching and the more chaotic and complex world of managerial practice".
Education Pedagogy
Center for Teaching, Vanderbilt University. A very extensive set of information and links concerning education principles, tips, tools, theory and practice. The teaching guides in particular are good, as is the " Classroom Response Systems ("Clickers") information and related bibliography by Derek Bruff.
Teaching with Classroom Response Systems. An excellent and regularly updated blog by Derek Bruff of Vanderbilt University, who is one of the most active authorities on Classroom Response Systems. His blog makes for interesting reading as it covers a broad educational technology remit, albeit with response systems at its heart.
Using a Teaching Case, Howard Hussock. A short and sweet discourse on how to use case studies.
Seven Principles For Good Practice in Undergraduate Education, Arthur W. Chickering and Zelda F. Gamson.
Response System Vendors and Reviews
Clicker Evolution: Seeking Intelligent Design, Maryfran Barber and David Njus. Features, advantages and disadvantages of six brands of response system compared. (eInstruction Classroom Performance System, Qwizdom, TurningPoint, Interwrite PRS, iClicker, and H-ITT)
Successful clicker standardisation, Jim Twetten, Jim Julius, & Linda Murphy-Boyer in Educause Quarterly. Consideration of clicker system attributes and good adoption/roll out practice, as well as discussion of four leading response system brands
Business schools need to go back to business school, Professor Ismail Erturk 2009 on TopMBA.com. A short discourse on the need for change in MBA curricula.
Using Response Systems
Clickers in the Large Classroom: Current Research and Best-Practice Tips, Caldwell, Jane E. As good a place as any to start, covering what clickers are, their effectiveness and advice on how best to use them.
Carl Weiman Science Education Initiative, University of British Columbia. An excellent compilation of resources to help educators. The resource guide is very good and a good "short-cut" to some of the insight in the video resources.
Clickers in the Classroom: An Active Learning Approach, Martyn, M. Includes some results on experimentation on student outcomes and student perspectives. The results are not statistically significant, but suggest that learning outcomes are not improved more than using non-clicker active learning, but students perceive value in clicker usage.
Teaching with Classroom Response Systems. An excellent and regularly updated blog by Derek Bruff of Vanderbilt University, who is one of the most active authorities on Classroom Response Systems. His blog makes for interesting reading as it covers a broad educational technology remit, albeit with response systems at its heart.
Clicker Tips and Resources, University of North Carolina, University of North Carolina. Another good compendium of practical resources for response system users.
Anonymity and in class learning: The case for electronic response systems, 2006, Freeman, Blayney & Ginns in Australasian Journal of Educational Technology.
Tips for Successful "Clicker" Use, Dr. Douglas Duncan, University of Colorado, 2009. A good concise list of do's and don'ts.
Thought Questions; A new approach to using clickers Teresa Foley & Pei-San Tsa 2010. Although used in the biological sciences, the technique, which promotes advocacy, critical thinking and analysis skills, is applicable in other disciplines such as business education,
Classroom Response Systems, A Teaching with Technology White Paper 2007, Carnegie Melon University. Another good starting point covering hardware, deployment and usage.
Carl Weiman Science Education Initiative, University of British Columbia. An excellent compilation of resources to help educators. The resource guide is very good and a good "short-cut" to some of the insight in the video resources.
Clicker Tips and Resources, University of North Carolina, University of North Carolina. Another good compendium of practical resources for response system users.
Clicker Toolbox, The Ohio State University. A good selection of resource links, mainly focussed on Turning Technologies.
Dr. Will Thalheimer's website dedicated to audience response systems. It includes his exhaustive 125-page report that covers numerous question types and methods.
Active and Experiential Learning
Teaching with Classroom Response Systems. An excellent and regularly updated blog by Derek Bruff of Vanderbilt University, who is one of the most active authorities on Classroom Response Systems. His blog makes for interesting reading as it covers a broad educational technology remit, albeit with response systems at its heart.
Clickers in the Classroom: An Active Learning Approach, Martyn, M. Includes some results on experimentation on student outcomes and student perspectives. The results are not statistically significant, but suggest that learning outcomes are not improved more than using non-clicker active learning, but students perceive value in clicker usage.
Centre for Active Learning, University of Gloucestershire. A collection of active learning links and resources.
Teaching Strategies to promote Active Learning: Effective Teaching Methods based on Active Learning Theories. The American Scientific Associations collection of links and resources relating to active learning.
Ten Benefits of Active Learning, University of Texas. Nothing more and nothing less than what it says!
Does Active Learning Work? A review of the research, Michael Prince. Reviews the evidence for the effectiveness of active (and related) learning. Focussed on engineering disciplines.
Leading into Battle, Rebecca Ray in Writing for HR. Consideration of experiential learning benefits for training leaders
Leadership Lessons from the Sims Michael A. Roberto 2009 in Chief Learning Officer. An engaging article outlining the benefits of simulations for teaching soft skills and how to make decisions in complex, dynamic environments.
Business simulations in small business management education: using principles and ideas from actions learning. From Action Learning: Research and Practice Journal, Jonas Gabrielsson, Joakim Tell, Diamanto Politis. An article on how business simulations may act "as a potential bridge between the safe harbour of traditional classroom teaching and the more chaotic and complex world of managerial practice".