iclicker Announces a Record Year in Higher Ed, Reaches 1,000 Customers and 2.5M Users
iclicker Adds Twenty-One Universities to Its Growing List of Institutional Adoptions; Recent Additions Include Pennsylvania State University, Stanford University and University of Missouri
(firmenpresse) - PHILADELPHIA, PA -- (Marketwire) -- 10/18/11 -- EDUCAUSE - , one of the most widely used and fastest growing student response systems in the nation, today announced a record year of growth. For fall 2011, iclicker has added twenty-one campus-wide adoptions and 500,000 students to its growing list of customers. Adopted at more than 1,000 educational institutions in North America and Canada, iclicker is now used by more than 2.5 million students. iclicker is a division of Macmillan New Ventures.
iclicker's student response system is designed to foster student collaboration and enable formative assessment. Keeping the philosophy of a simple and pedagogical experience front and center, iclicker bolsters the active learning experience for students and meets the needs of instructors in a wide range of disciplines and with varied teaching styles. For more about iclicker's full range of products and features, please click .
"Standardizing under one response system platform is a process that requires thorough evaluation, time and resources," said Troy Williams, a vice president at global publisher Macmillan and general manager of Macmillan New Ventures, the division that includes iclicker. "We greatly appreciate the commitment of our institutional customers and aim to surpass their expectations as we continue our mission to deliver products with superior ease-of-use that engage students and help them play an active role in their own learning."
The list of new institutional adoptions for fall 2011 includes:
Bucknell University
California State University San Marcos
University of Connecticut
Florida International University
University of Illinois at Chicago
Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
University of Kansas
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Missouri
University of Nebraska
Pennsylvania State University
Pennsylvania State University Erie
Purdue University
Purdue University Calumet
Ryerson University
San Diego State University
San Francisco State University
College of St. Scholastica
Stanford University
Wayne State University
iclicker will be featuring its latest remote, iclicker2, and its newest software addition, Self-Paced Polling, at EDUCAUSE booth #1259.
About iclicker:
iclicker was built by educators for educators with the goal of keeping students focused on content, not technology. iclicker is one of the most widely used classroom response systems in higher education, adopted at more than 900 educational institutions in North America and Canada and used by more than 2.5 million students. iclicker has a growing number of customers in K-12 and also serves customers in corporate environments.
Invented in 2003 by four University of Illinois professors, iclicker's classroom response system continues to be recognized for its superior reliability, intuitive software, and focus on formative assessment and pedagogy. Together with a team of faculty advisors and reviewers, inventors Tim Stelzer and Mats Selen continue to play lead roles in product development. iclicker2 is a product of Macmillan New Ventures, a division of Macmillan. For more information, visit .
About Macmillan New Ventures:
Macmillan New Ventures discovers, develops and markets innovative technologies and new products that make learning more engaging. Part of global media company Macmillan, we're here to do more for education. To push the boundaries of where, when and how we learn. Teacher to student. Student to teacher. And peer to peer.
Elizabeth Sigal
Jones-Dilworth, Inc.
401-595-9352
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