Educational Transformation through Technology at MIT - TEAL. In the late 1990s, educational innovations in teaching freshman physics, specifically a method called interactive engagement, were delivering greater learning gains than the traditional lecture format.
These innovations were not lost on Professor John Belcher, teacher of first-year physics at MIT and one of the three principal investigators on the Technology Enabled Active Learning (TEAL) project. Belcher was grappling with the mismatch between traditional teaching methods and how students actually learn. Despite great lecturers, attendance at MIT's freshman physics course dropped to 40% by the end of the term, with a 10% failure rate. Even though MIT freshmen had good math skills, they often had a tough time grasping the concepts of first-year physics. iLABS - Educational Transformation through Technology at MIT.
iLabs enriches science and engineering education by vastly increasing the scope of experiments that students have access to in the course of their academic careers.
Harnessing the Internet, it enables students to use real instruments via remote online laboratories. Unlike conventional laboratories, iLabs can be shared across a university or across the world—and today, they are. Commitment Conducting experiments motivates students; it also causes them to learn more effectively.
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