Dr. Daniel Seaton
Title: Do students read textbooks? E-text use in blended and online introductory physics courses
Group Meeting Date & Time: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 @ 1:30 pm
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During his recent group meeting, entitled “Do students read textbooks? E-text use in blended and online introductory physics courses”, Dr. Daniel Seaton gave us his expert insight on student behavior [Read more...]
Dr. Mary Ellen Wiltrout
Title: Discovery-based lab courses and teacher assistant training
Group Meeting Date & Time: Friday, November 9, 2012 @ 2:00 pm
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In her group meeting, Dr. Mary Ellen Wiltrout discussed her experiences as a preceptor for a discovery-based laboratory course and instituting a teaching assistant training program at Harvard University. Dr. Wiltrout’s is a preceptor for MCB52, [Read more...]
Professor Chris Dede
Title: How Immersion in Virtual and Augmented Worlds Helps Students in the Real World
Seminar Date & Time: Friday, September 28, 2012 @ 2:00 pm
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Professor Chris Dede is the Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. His fields of scholarship [Read more...]
Dr. Scott Freeman
Title: Evidence-based Teaching in Introductory Biology
Seminar Date & Time: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 @ 1:00 pm
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Dr. Scott Freeman is a Senior Lecturer in Biology at the University of Washington (UW), where he teaches introductory and upper-division courses. Since the mid-1990s, his focus has been on textbook [Read more...]
Dr. Colin Fredericks
Title: Patterns of Behavior in Online Homework Systems
Group Meeting Date & Time: Monday, June 4, 2012 @ 2:00 pm
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Dr. Colin Fredericks is working in MIT’s RELATE group as a postdoctoral researcher in physics education. Dr. Colin Fredericks’ work in the RELATE group includes the creation of online course materials, the analysis of homework [Read more...]
Professor Scott Strobel
Title: Undergraduate Project Ownership through the Discovery of Microbial and Chemical Diversity
Seminar Date & Time: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 @ 2:00 pm
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Professor Scott Strobel is the Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University and a [Read more...]
Professor Jonathan King
Title: Resistance to Expanding and Enhancing STEM Education: from Colonial Times to the Present
Seminar Date & Time: Monday, May 14, 2012 @ 2:00 pm
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Professor Jonathan King is a Professor in the Biology Department at MIT. His research laboratory focuses on the genetic control of protein folding and virus assembly. In addition [Read more...]
Dr. Julie Schell and Dr. Brian Lukoff
Title: Peer Instruction 2.0: The Next Generation of Catalyzing Learner Engagement in STEM Classrooms
Group Meeting Date & Time: Thursday, May 10, 2012 @ 2:00 pm
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Dr. Julie Schell and Dr. Brian Lukoff are both Postdoctoral Fellows in Professor Eric [Read more...]
Professor Melissa Kosinski-Collins
Title: Responding to the age-old question “Why do I have to take orgo?”
Group Meeting Date & Time: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 @ 2:00 pm
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Professor Melissa Kosinski-Collins is an Associate Professor of Biology at Brandeis University. Professor Kosinski-Collins received her Ph.D. from MIT studying protein folding and aggregation in the laboratory [Read more...]
Professor Jo Handelsman
Title: Engage to Excel: A National Perspective on Science Education
Seminar Date & Time: Friday, March 16, 2012 @ 2:00 pm
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Professor Jo Handelsman is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University.
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