Project Summary
Project Title
Mobile Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning for Science, Pre-engineering, and Pre-medical Students in a Liberal Arts Environment
Project Summary
We propose to increase student competence, confidence, and enthusiasm in the physical sciences by creating a Tablet PC-based interactive learning atmosphere involving individualized student exploration.
Traditional lecture-based pedagogy employed in physics and chemistry courses has not changed much in the past 80 years, despite revolutionary advances in computing power and increases in student comfort and proficiency with technology. The majority of today’s students are technologically adept and excited about new modes of instruction. In the Physics and Chemistry departments, we have begun to leverage this student competence in technology by piloting Tablet PC lecturing in three courses and “clicker”-based multiple-choice polling in one course with encouraging results and positive student feedback.
This grant will enable the Physics and Chemistry departments to implement significant pedagogical reform into their introductory courses which will impact most physics, chemistry, pre-engineering, and pre-medical students. Using interactive Tablet PC software in classrooms and labs, students will connect with the professor and each other to solve graphically intensive problems and to engage in interactive computer simulations of traditionally “static” material. We believe that interest in this new paradigm of technology-enhanced learning will provide impetus for college-wide adoption of a Tablet PC initiative for all science majors.
Andrew French | 
June 5, 2008 1:24 pm
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