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"The benefits to a Wikipedia assignment are extensive. Asking students to interact with the largest reference work in the world creates a unique educational experience: namely, a Wikipedia assignment provides a real-life application of the skills and knowledge students develop in the classroom. Asking students to participate in a Wikipedia project challenges them to examine and refine the ways in which they interact with digital resources. Students must develop their media literacy as they assess the reliability of online sources, their online etiquette as they interact with editors around the globe, and their critical thinking skills as they identify articles that need improvement. When students edit articles, they must produce material that is relavant to Wikipedia and consumed by actual readers beyond their classroom. They are confronted with immediate feedback to their work and must learn how to collaborate with writers around the globe. "

List of tools to use to gather feedback in class. These tools serve as alternatives to using Clickers.

A detailed 8-minute introduction to giving audio feedback to students, because quicker than writing/typing, feels like the instructor is speaking to students directly, and students gain greater depth of understanding.

""Usually with an exam, feedback will come as a mark and then many students will throw the exam away," says Brett Gilley, a former Science Teaching and Learning Fellow in the Carl Weiman Science Education Initiative, and an instructor with UBC's Vantage College and the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences. "Here, we're making them review the exam while they still care about the answers to the questions.""

Series of videos on clickers, managing TAs, managing teaching along with responsibilities, Q&As including about online courses, diverse students, and feedback (discontent vs. systemic).