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Teaching and Learning with Technology Brown Bag

Event Type: NONE
Date: 11/4/2009
Start Time: 12:00 PM
End Time: 1:00 PM
Description: Improving Student Learning in Large Introductory Physics Courses
Tim Stelzer, Professor—Department of Physics
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
23 Illini Hall

Tim Stelzer will discuss the use of prelectures, short (<20-min) narrated Flash animations designed to introduce students to fundamental concepts beforethey attend class. Students enjoy watching prelectures, are better able to participate in classroom lectures, and find they get more out of them. Tim will screen a typical prelecture and discuss clinical studies, eyetracking studies, and student outcome data from an introductory E&M course.


Library: University Library - Staff Events
Location: Illini Hall 23
Link: http://www.cites.illinois.edu/edtech/participate