Equipment and Software
About The Interactive Learning Toolkit – BQ
The Interactive Learning Toolkit (ILT) allows educators to implement innovative teaching ideas, such as Peer Instruction and Just-in-Time Teaching, and monitor students' learning. The goal of ILT is to help educators focus on teaching by streamlining the organizational work that accompanies the course. Educators can select class materials from a large database, and organize (and possibly share) their own materials.
The BQ part of the ILT-BQ software enables students to respond to in-class questions prepared by the instructor, via networked desktop or laptop computers, web-enabled cell phones, wireless PDAs, and/or wireless IR keypads.
The ILT-BQ software allows educators to upload ConcepTests prepared within the ILT-BQ and to return the student responses to the ILT for statistical analysis of the data and the tracking of individual student performance.
About Class Response Systems ("Clickers")
Using infrared wireless transmitters, students answer questions and record their responses instantly. This technology is used for taking attendance, quizzes and tests, and for lesson review. Results are immediately charted and displayed for real-time feedback.
- Features Include:
- Questions are asked in a variety of formats.
- Students respond uninhibitedly.
- Feedback is received.
- Results are calculated instantly, so the lesson can be adapted to fit the students' needs.
- Test grades are recorded within a gradebook, exported into Excel, Word, PDF, or a grade course management system such as the Blackboard Learning System, Web Assign, or WebCT.
Manufacturers of Class Response Systems and Software