2015 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2015

Session

T-MEDAL CAP Medal Talk - Chitra Rangan, U. Windsor (Teaching Undergraduate Physics / Enseignement de la physique au 1er cycle)

T-MEDAL

16 Jun 2015, 10:15

University of Alberta

Conveners

T-MEDAL CAP Medal Talk - Chitra Rangan, U. Windsor (Teaching Undergraduate Physics / Enseignement de la physique au 1er cycle)

• Adam Sarty (Saint Mary's University)

896. Generating Ideas for Active and Experiential Learning in Physics

Chitra Rangan (University of Windsor)

16/06/2015, 10:15

Plenary Speaker / Conférencier plénier

The Physics community has known the importance of Active Learning (AL) for the last twenty years (see [1,2]). A recent analysis of 225 studies on AL [3] has demonstrated that “active learning appears effective across all class sizes --- although the greatest effects are in small (n <= 50) classes.” Physicists have innovated both technologies and techniques for AL [4,5]. Yet, most classes,...