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I've been in contact with our eInstruction consultant asking whether his company would be addressing the high cost of clickers, considering the free applications becoming available including the possible use of cell phones instead of clickers. He said that an option available for the University for piloting beginning in January 2010 is pay-as-you-go for students. Students would be able to purchase clickers at the bookstore for $24, and then pay a registration fee of $13/semester (that's per semester and NOT per class) for the first 3 semesters. Students don't have to use the clickers for a certain number of semesters, and they can still return them to the bookstore for buyback.

They'll also be offering a vClicker alternative that will run on a mobile phone with the license fee the same as the registration fee ($13/semester) and without the cost of the clicker. These will work together with clickers in the same classroom as long as there is wireless available.

One additional note, the PRS clickers are currently not compatible with Snow Leopard OS 10.6 released on 8/28, but they're working on it.