Here's what people are saying about H-ITT:
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Learn from these experts who put the H-ITT system in action everyday.
Douglas Duncan Ph.D.
"Wireless student response systems are the most helpful and exciting educational technology I've seen. They do things that really matter in the classroom: let instructors and students immediately know if they are understanding the material, rather than waiting for a test. More that that, they engage students and make learning an active, rather than passive experience. Extensive data shows students learn more and enjoy the engagement."
Douglas Duncan is author of Clickers in the Classroom
Randall Isaacson Ph.D.
"As an educational psychologist who teaches teachers, I focus my teaching and research on the teaching-learning process, particularly the impact of learning-to-learn and metacognition. My research has demonstrated that students who are most at risk for failure in college are most likely to overestimate their mastery of course content. There is evidence that this is due to poor metacognitive knowledge monitoring (MKM); students don't know they don't know."
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Megan Donahue Ph.D.
"The student transmitter technology has transformed the way I approach teaching a large class. Now, when I think of what I want the students to learn I also try to figure out how to help them learn it, and how to reveal any misconceptions or problems they might have with the material well before I test them on it."
Megan Donahue is an Associate Professor of Physics at Michigan State University where she has been teaching with clickers for 3 semesters in a large lecture course (up to 250 students at once).
Leo Schouest Ph.D.
Dr. Schouest has been with the UC Riverside campus for over 26 years and has in the last seven years successfully implemented many IT principles on the campus especially within the Science departments. Lately his focus has been on implementing a large scale H-ITT deployment.
Dr Leo Schouest is Manager of Academic Computing /Faculty and Student Technical Services.
Jack Wilson Ph.D.
Professor Jack Wilson currently teaches a large lecture humanities course to 400 students at one time using the H-ITT system.
Professor Jack Wilson is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Maine
"I used the H-ITT clickers in a classroom of about 100 students in the Fall 2005 semester. The performance of the system was amazing and the students truly enjoyed using it. The immediate feedback transformed my lectures. I am a big advocate of the H-ITT system"
-William L. Ziegler, Associate Prof., Computer Science, Binghamton University,
State University of New York
"H-ITT has an excellent product which, unlike some other high-tech educational products does what is actually needed in the lecture hall: increase interaction and understanding for both students and faculty! Software is as important as hardware in choosing a student response system. The University of Colorado at Boulder chose H-ITT in good part because the faculty members found the software easy to use. An advantage of H-ITT's bright colors is that they are easy to see, and this may reduce the instances of cheating compared to other systems. With infrared systems students must hold the clicker in a line of sight to the base unit which makes them readily visible to the instructor, eliminating the chance that a student can answer with a concealed clicker."
-Dr. Douglas Duncan of the University of Colorado and Author of Clickers in the Classroom
"I'm having a great time using the system and it is really engaging students. Thanks for all your help I really appreciate it."
-Aaron Glimme, Science Department Head, Berkeley High School, Berkeley, CA
"H-ITT does an excellent job of following up on technical support issues and working with its customers to enhance the software."
-Benjamin Grinstein, Professor, Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, CA
"I've just finished my first semester with the H-ITT system. In previous semesters I used another vendor's system. One of the main advantages H-ITT has over the competition is the openness of the software. The Competitor's software runs only on Windows and only accepts question files in a proprietary format."
-Dr. Stephen Walton, Director of the Donald E. Bianchi Planetarium, Physics & Astronomy Department, California State University, Northridge
"The recording of student confidence with their answer and the ability to adjust point values based on their confidence is really working well. I am able to talk to the class about how meeting with a partner influences your confidence and accuracy (an integral part of my research) that I could not assess or present with any other classroom response system. The 1.8 update has been very helpful for the research I am doing and the application of this research into my teaching."
-Randy Isaacson Ph.D., Associate Professor of Education, Indiana University South Bend
"Hyper Interactive Teaching Technology (H-ITT) receivers have been installed on campus at the request of a group of faculty. ... Seven departments are currently using clickers (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, Botany, Political Science, Zoology). ... IT plans to implement clickers in classrooms from the largest classrooms to the smallest. ... H-ITT seems to be ahead of the curve. This company has announced that their new clickers will show students that their vote has been correctly recorded. We cannot standardize on a clicker vendor that relies on RF technology because of the construction of some of our classroom buildings. ... An advantage of infrared technology is that the clicker has to be in the line of sight of the receiver. This discourages students from bringing other student’s clickers to class and committing academic misconduct. After discussion, the ITC decided to compose an email to teaching faculty informing them of the existence and location of installation of clicker systems, and encouraging them to standardize on H-ITT."
-Universtiy of Oklahoma, ITC Meeting Minutes
"Intrigued by the possibilities of H-ITT, I evaluated clickers form several companies who demonstrated their product to a group of chemistry faculty and Information and Technology Services (ITS) staff. Assessed on their overall functionality, ease of use, cost, and installation requirements, the H-ITT product was selected....I thought that the clickers aided in our understanding of the material. It made me actually think and apply the things we have learned in class, instead of just sitting there. It is also nice to get everyone involved and be interactive."
-Travis Fridgen, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Wilfrid Laurier University
"H-ITT's new Smart-Link two-way transmitters are a major innovative development in audience response technology. The speed of input confirmation sent back to each unit is amazing. These new H-ITT transmitters almost perform like RF units but at a fraction of the price!"
- Harold Horowitz, President of Socratec.
"We are really impressed with H-ITT's high speed system. Its the fastest system we have seen."
- Dr. Harold Stokes at Brigham Young University
"These results [200 responses collected in under 10 seconds] look very impressive, and are indeed about 10 times faster than the speeds we see everyday using another vendors response system."
- Dr. Stephen W. Draper at the University of Glasgow
"We've been using the H-ITT system for 2+ years now with thousands of students a semester and we love it. Class attendance and student understanding in our general physics courses has increased dramatically. I've tried several other student response applications and HITT's software is the best I've seen. Their software seems to deliver the most features already built into it and H-ITT seems to implement new features the quickest as users like myself make suggestions."
- John Mocko of the University of Florida
"We greatly appreciate the help we have received with your product."
- Dr. Tony Hall, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
"I just recently starting using the newest version of Analyzer. The new features are very nice! I really like the auto-emailing of grades to students. Also, in the latest version of Acquisition, I really like the ability to display the screen name during votes, rather than the remote ID. Thanks for your swift work!"
- Mike Dubson, Senior Instructor, Dept. of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder
"The remote control technology allows me to instantly check every student for understanding and produces a record of student responses, so that I can examine it in more detail later. When I integrate the remote control technology with classroom discussion, I found that the graphical representation of the class's responses helps kids move towards understanding of concepts."
- Marc Reif, Teacher of Physics, Fayetteville High School
"Principles of Biology went to a large section, team taught format in 2000-2001. During the fall semester, many students had a hard time keeping up with the material, and many said they had some difficulty with the differences in exam styles of the different unit instructors. We decided that having regular quizzes would be one way to help with both situations, but the idea of hand grading the quizzes would have been daunting. By using remote quizzing in the spring semester, we were able to give 3-6 quiz questions each lecture, give the students immediate feedback, and have their responses automatically graded and recorded. What was more pleasing was that the students seemed better prepared for both the subjects and styles of the exam. The classes' exam averages were about 10% higher in the spring than the fall, and it appeared that attrition was lower in the spring. We are really sold on remote quizzing."
- Dr. Fred Spiegel, Vice Chair Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas
"I like the immediate feedback the remote control technology provides. I can tailor my lecture to concentrate on the concepts the students are finding difficult and not waste time on concepts they were able to grasp from the text. You can't get that kind of 'on-the-fly' feedback from paper quizzes."
- Janet Mosebach, Department of Accounting, University of Arkansas
"Last spring we used the H-ITT clickers in the PN classroom. It was a positive learning experience for both students and instructors. The students engaged more in classroom lectures with even very quiet, shy students answering questions using the clickers. The instructors reported that the clicker feedback allowed them to see immediately if there were concepts that needed clarification. As Director of Technology Services for this area at Arkansas Northeastern College, I can say, after researching several response systems, we’re purchasing H-ITT!"
- Carol Mills, Directory of Technology Services, Extended Campuses, Arkansas Northeastern College
"I have been using the HITT classroom response system in my high school science classes for 5 months now and both the students and myself continue to enjoy this product. I have the infra-red remotes and am pleased with their ease of use and reliability.
I use this product on an almost daily basis. My favorite use is for review of previously covered material as it allows both myself and the student to assess their level of understanding. The instant feedback that the graph provides after each question lets me know when to reinforce concepts or move on to the next topic. I have found that my test scores can be predicted by how well the students do on these reviews.
Another benefit of the HITT system is its extreme flexibility. My material can be presented in a wide range of formats including oral questions, power points, word documents, examview questions or virtually any medium. My wife has a much more expensive system in use in her classroom but finds that it is very restrictive and only allows her to input her questions in their prescribed format.
I would not hesitate to recommend this system to other teachers wanting a low cost way to enrich their classroom instruction"
- Chip Wood (Science), Scranton High School, Scranton, Ar.
"I used the H-ITT IR system for several years and was very pleased with it. It was fast, easy to use, and the students really liked the instant feedback. After a disappointing one-semester trial of another response system I switched back to H-ITT - this time with the RF system - and am more pleased than ever. I now use the H-ITTShow software to provide a review "game" before all my tests. The company is very responsive, their clicker purchasing model works well with our bookstore, and their open source software can be tailored to our needs."
- Dr. Chris Hansen, Departmental Chair of Physics, Southern Adventist University, Chattanooga, TN.
