Simon’s Physics Education Blog

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Two new projects for PER type SH projects. Other three are in an email in
DoT folder
1. Attutudinal variation of shifts in student views of learning.
Course 1A : 2006-07
Duration is S1, S2 for student interviews
Aim: to evaluate students attitudes towards learning, possibly contextualised
towards Physics at the start adn end of the course
Use clickers to capture responses [...]

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For some time I have been toying with the idea of using podcasts as a way to support
student self study time. In collaboration with Divinity, we put together a bit to PeLF
which was not funded. However, a reduced project will go forward to provide proof-of-
concept with a view to resubmitting next year and hopefully being [...]

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One of the things we are instigating for next year is a training course specifically for our PGs who will teach in in our early years (1 and 2) workshops.
Have been giving some thought to how this will look to get the right balance of generic material about teaching and Physocs-specific material. More on that [...]

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Came across this great quote on Tama’s eLearning blog talking about Stanford on iTunes:
 ”professional obligation of educators to embrace podcasting and use its disruptive potential for constructive opportunities.”
I have been toying with the idea of incorporating podcasts as additional learning resources in a large first year undergraduate Physics course I am course organiser for. But not, as an example, just [...]

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I am in the middle (well, not true actually… at the start of) writing an article on the use of electronic voting systems for use in large undergraduate lectures. There’s a ton of stuff out there at the moment about the application of this type of technique in HE.
Steve Draper’s page has a ton of [...]

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