Info Graphic considering SuperStudio style Teaching > Learning. Create infographics | Infogr.am. SuperStudio learning spaces from a design perspective. Peer Instruction Blog. Peer Instruction Network member and Queens University Professor James M. Fraser has been flipping his undergraduate physics classroom using Peer Instruction for many years. For his “outstanding knowledge, teaching ability and accessibility to students,” Fraser was awarded the 2012 Queens University Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching. Fraser talks to Turn to Your Neighbor readers about using his training as a scientist to improve his teaching and his students’ learning. See Fraser’s favorite ConcepTest (or clicker question) in Figure 2. Peer Instruction Network member, Professor James Fraser, Queens University “How can I tell if Peer Instruction is really working?”
In the research literature, there is an overwhelming amount of evidence that PI works for students in a variety of classrooms and subjects. Actually there are a lot of reasons not to do this. Fraser listening to his students in a Peer Instruction class session. Don’t expect such an instrument to do everything. 1. 2. 3. 4. Open-space Learning approaches. Open-space Learning (OSL) Open-space Learning, or OSL, is a pedagogic methodology. OSL is an interdisciplinary, or better, a transdisciplinary, pedagogy, that seeks to challenge the lecture and seminar mode that dominates as the teaching orthodoxy in some universities. The pedagogy is dependent on the use of physically 'open' spaces - in the sense that tables and chairs are absent - and an 'open' approach to intellectual content and the role of the tutor. Participants in OSL, typically but not exclusively, learn in an 'embodied' way. Thomas Docherty writes the following in his introduction to the recent publication on the subject: 'In OSL we open public space as well as the private spaces in which we learn.
The project explores how it is we can enhance what is fashionably called the student experience of learning. Origins The basic idea was to apply the practices and theories of the theatrical rehearsal room and the theatrical ensemble across a university curriculum. People Methods Theory.