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Instructor Software

For his instructor software, Mark Laumakis uses iClicker Classic, iClicker's offline system for tracking your students engagement and grades that uses a hardware base. Designed for simplicity and speed, our original instructor software is supremely simple in design, lightning-fast, and supports both physical clickers and mobile application.

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Student Response Option(s)

Mark Laumakis’s students use iClicker 2, our newest generation of physical remote. Rock-solid reliable and distraction-free, iClicker 2 is a simple and convenient tool for promoting active learning and classroom engagement through polls and quizzes, with upgraded features like numeric and alphanumeric capabilities and an LCD display.

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Scientific American: Psychology 2e

Thoroughly revised with input and insight from many of the hundreds of adopters of the groundbreaking first edition, Scientific American: Psychology continues to set a new standard for the introduction to psychology. Deborah Licht and Misty Hull continue to combine their years of research and teaching insights with the journalistic skill of science writer Coco Ballantyne. Together, they have created an introductory psychology resource that combines print and digital components into a seamless learning experience.

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Increase your students' confidence by providing a place where they can read, study, practice, complete homework, and more. With LaunchPad, instructors and students always get superior service and support, based around Macmillan’s legendary high quality content. Take advantage of features like LearningCurve adaptive quizzing (a favorite of Mark Laumakis), which offers individualized question sets and feedback for each student based on his or her correct and incorrect responses. All the questions are tied back to the e-book to encourage students to use the resources at hand.

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WEBINAR: Closing the Loop: Using iClicker & LaunchPad for Success In & Out of Class

How can we nudge students to do the things that we know will help them learn? How can we close the loop between what students are doing in class with what they are doing (or NOT doing) outside of class? Mark Laumakis, who has taught close to 30,000 Introductory Psychology students during his almost 20-year teaching career at San Diego State University, offers his thoughts about these questions. His approach to promoting student success in PSY 101 emphasizes the use of iClicker during class and the strategic use of LearningCurve quizzes in LaunchPad for homework.

Tips & Best Practices from Lecturer Mark Laumakis 

Active Learning in Psychology

Studies show that engaging students through activities, discussion and collaboration is more effective than traditional lecturing. How can iClicker and an active-learning approach transform the traditional lecture format, especially in courses with the extra challenge of large enrollment, like Introduction to Psychology? Watch this on-demand webinar to learn key strategies, ideas and best practices as they relate to the Psychology classroom!

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iClicker in Psychology

Dr. Edna Ross, Course Director and Psychology Instructor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Louisville teaches over 300 students each semester in her Introduction to Psychology course. Although taking a tag-team approach to teaching, where each topic is taught by an instructor passionate in that area, Dr. Ross structures the entire course for consistency which requires her to strategize ways to not only engage students from the start, but teach them how to think about psychology in the best way to fully comprehend the concepts.

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