- Introduction
Direct learning approach commonly used by Physics teachers does not really improve student ability to develop self-understanding as well as environment awareness [1]. In direct learning, especially used to teach Physics at senior High School, teachers give an explanation about the material, followed by examples of exercises, and end with students working on exercises....
During summer of 2005 I worked with my dad who was a professor in mathematics at the University of Illinois (now emeritus) on a research project that was broadly in the area of inverse problems. An inverse problem in science is the process of calculating from a set of observations the causal factors that produced them. For example, calculating an image from MRI data or source reconstruction...
Office hours, a time and place where students receive professor guidance, is an asset available to nearly every college and university student; however, many students do not use office hours. Office hours can be extremely beneficial, so the question exists, how to get students who need help to come to office hours? Herd Hours, an alternative to office hours, successfully addresses this...
In this activity, students learn about addition of vectors and relative motion in two dimensions by simulating real flight conditions on an obsolete Flight Navigation Chart. These charts, called “Sectional Charts”, are used by pilots to identify landmarks. Students act as “pilots” as they take their airplane from the origin airport to her destination airport, first passively (without...
