Conveners
Workshop Innovative strategies at university: 025
- Guillaume Schiltz
- Gerald Feldman
Workshop Innovative strategies at university: 198
- David Sands
Workshop Innovative strategies at university: 002
- David Sokoloff
Description
UNI: Innovative strategies and pathways to improve physics education at university
An active-learning workshop is offered to provide an example of a collaborative group-learning pedagogical environment for introductory physics at the university level. Participants will engage in various hands-on and minds-on exercises to illustrate how such a dynamic classroom can transform the strategy for teaching physics in university classes. A discussion about the benefits and...
The nature of concepts and conceptual understanding is discussed in relation to approaches to teaching which enhance conceptual understanding. The role of qualitative relationships, mental models, discussion, team work and the use of different kinds of representations are all discussed with reference to their use in scientific reasoning and, by extension, learning to reason in science....
Active Learning in Optics and Photonics (ALOP) is a program to improve the secondary and university learning environment. A full 5-day intensive, hands-on-minds-on ALOP workshop updates participants on introductory optics and photonics and introduces them to strategies that have been demonstrated to be more effective than traditional instruction. These are characterized by use of predictions,...
