October 18, 2011, Youngstown, OH—Turning Technologies, LLC, a leader in the response technology industry, today announced that Dr. Eric Mazur, Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University and Area Dean of Applied Physics, has joined Turning Technologies’ senior leadership team as Chief Academic Advisor. Mazur has been Chairman of the company’s Instructional Strategies Advisory Group since 2009.
“Turning is honored and thrilled to strengthen its relationship with Dr. Mazur,” stated Mike Broderick, Turning Technologies’ CEO. “Expanding our strategic alliance will continue to grow the successful collaboration we developed over the past two years. Since our company’s inception, Turning has committed itself to the highest quality of customer service and responsiveness. For 10 years we have worked closely with leading educators to evolve the features and functionality of our products and services to the ever changing 21st Century learning environment. Dr. Mazur’s experience will bring significant additional insight to the application and future development of our products.”
As Chief Academic Advisor, Dr. Mazur’s primary responsibility will be to advise product development and support the company’s ongoing efforts to add product capabilities that easily facilitate innovative pedagogical approaches and methods in learning environments. Mazur will also provide recommendations on how to best address educators’ needs and challenges and how to further leverage the proven, effective pedagogical uses of the company’s products and services.
“Turning is the undisputed leader in response technology and a proven innovator in educational technology. I am excited to strengthen my ties to the company and to help Turning introduce the next generation of innovative education software and hardware,” commented Dr. Eric Mazur.
In addition to his role as a Harvard professor and an internationally recognized researcher, Dr. Mazur is also a respected author, speaker, and entrepreneur. Dr. Mazur’s pedagogical work includes “Peer Instruction,” an interactive teaching approach that has shown a substantial, measurable impact on student engagement and learning, and the “Interactive Learning Toolkit” (ILT), a web-based platform for implementing innovative teaching strategies. As part of his commitment to Turning, he will incorporate the company’s interactive response solutions into many of the keynote presentations that he delivers around the world.
About Turning Technologies, LLC
Turning Technologies, LLC develops interactive response systems designed specifically to increase learning outcomes. Proven research-based audience and student response technologies enable teachers, professors, trainers, and administrators to gather vital data needed to increase the effectiveness of instruction and presentations. The company’s interactive polling software applications, TurningPoint® and TurningPoint AnyWhere, combine with either durable ResponseCard® keypads or ResponseWare® mobile response applications to provide the most advanced combination of knowledge and technology currently available in the field of audience and student assessment. www.TurningTechnologies.com
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