Summary: Classroom response systems, or ?Clickers,? have been around for years, but only a small percentage of classes use them. Competing and incompatible brands, faculty reluctance to try new technologies, and confusion about which campus group should provide support for the devices all contribute to a slow adoption, says Derek Bruff, director of Vanderbilt University?s Center for Teaching and author of Teaching with Classroom Response Systems. The Tech Therapy team looks at how these gadgets can be seen as an example of how hard it is to move technology beyond the early adopter stage.
