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Learning Catalytics is an application that allows students to respond in class to prompts (similar to clickers) with a variety of styles for the questions. Yes, it is like clickers, but it is even more than that due to the variety of question styles. One benefit is the teacher login is free, so you can start creating questions right away. There are also questions already available for a number of subjects. The disadvantage is the student logins cost money. (Currently $20/year per student.)

By Stuart Grandy, Nichole N. Barger Academic Leadership, The Online Journal Volume 8 - Issue 2 Apr 19, 2010 - 10:20:41 AM We report on the implementation of a range of classroom activities that have been widely advocated in the literature and yet remain less common in the sciences than other disciplines. The practices we use include: 1) seminars, in which students take a lead in discussion of course content; 2) role-playing activities whereby students take on the role of a different person and creatively explore how their perspectives may change; and 3) oral and written self evaluations