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Visualizing Physics: Technology-Enabled Active Learning at MIT
Technology-enabled active learning merges lectures, cutting-edge visualizations and simulations, and hands-on desktop experiments to create a rich collaborative learning experience. Through stunning visualizations of complex physical phenomena and their related desktop experiments, Visualizing Physics: Technology-Enabled Active Learning at MIT follows the progression of the MIT undergraduate course, “Introduction to Electricity and Magnetism” (8.02) through three…
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Higher Education Researchers Meet at Microsoft Summit
“Bill Gates gave the opening keynote Monday at Microsoft Research’s 6th annual Faculty Summit, and participated in an exclusive Q&A along with Rick Rashid, senior VP of Microsoft Research and Sailesh Chutani, director of Microsoft University Relations. Nearly 400 faculty invited from 135 higher education institutions in 20 countries met on Microsoft1s Redmond campus for…
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Interactive Engagement in MIT Introductory Physics
“Over the last three years, the MIT Physics Department has been introducing major changes in the way that Mechanics I, 8.01, and Electromagnetism I, 8.02, are taught. These cases are the result of the TEAL (Technology Enhanced Active Learning) Project…” Forum on Education of the American Physical Society, Spring 2004 (PAGE 4) Read More (Page…