Arizona State
University faculty
web site on assessment, particularly for
mechanics based instruction.
"How
People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and
School",
John D. Bransford, Ann L. Brown, and Rodney
R. Cocking, editors Committee on
Developments in the Science of Learning
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences
and Education National Research Council
NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS Washington, D.C.
1999.
EDUCATION: Farewell, Lecture? Eric Mazur.
"Discussions of education are generally
predicated on the assumption that we know
what education is. I hope to convince you
otherwise by recounting some of my own
experiences. When I started teaching
introductory physics to undergraduates at
Harvard University, I never asked myself how
I would educate my students. I did what my
teachers had done--I lectured. I thought
that was how one learns. Look around
anywhere in the world and you'll find
lecture halls filled with students and, at
the front, an instructor. This approach to
education has not changed since before the
Renaissance and the birth of scientific
inquiry. Early in my career I received the
first hints that something was wrong with
teaching in this manner, but I had ignored
it. Sometimes it's hard to face reality."
Read more...
"Pedagogies
of Engagement: Classroom-Based Practices",
Karl A. Smith, Sheri Sheppard, David W.
Johnson, and Roger T. Johnson.
Abstract: "Educators, researchers, and
policy makers have advocated student
involvement for some time as an essential
aspect of meaningful learning. In the past
twenty years engineering educators have
implemented several means of better engaging
their undergraduate students, including
active and cooperative learning, learning
communities, service learning, cooperative
education, inquiry and problem-based
learning, and team projects. This paper
focuses on classroom-based pedagogies of
engagement, particularly cooperative and
problem-based learning. It includes a brief
history, theoretical roots, research
support, summary of practices, and
suggestions for redesigning engineering
classes and programs to include more student
engagement. The paper also lays out the
research ahead for advancing pedagogies
aimed at more fully enhancing students’
involvement in their learning."
Karl Smith's
web
site with educational research and
practice material.
About ExCEED "The
ExCEEd Teaching Model", Journal of
Professional Issues in Engineering Education
and Practice, Volume 131, Issue 4, pp.
218-222 (October 2005).
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