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Education and teaching
Education and teaching
Manu Forero-Shelton (Access to quality support material for teachers, low cost instrumentation, physics for biology students)
Chad Leidy (physics for biology students, active learning)
Juan Manuel Pedraza (Low cost instrumentation)


• The goal is to contribute to the improvement of teaching of sciences in the developing world. In particular, the goal is to develop tools to improve teacher´s access to quality material as well as to develop low-cost instrumentation for teaching and research. 


• In collaboration with the CIFE (research center in education and training), a Ph.D. student in Denmark and Chad Leidy among others, we are redeveloping the basic physics classes taken by life science students. We are making the classes completely active (no lecturing), and including peer instruction, tutorials and other elements of active learning.  An important part of the class is the development of problems of interest to students in biology and medicine where physics is relevant.


Improving education at the secondary level. The central aims of the project are to  
In collaboration with the CIFE (research center in education and training), a Ph.D. student in Denmark and Chad Leidy among others, we re-developed the basic physics classes taken by life science students. We included peer instruction, tutorials and other elements of active learning. An important part was the development of problems of interest to students in biology and medicine where physics is relevant.


1. Improve use of computers in secondary schools
Students interested in developing open source teaching labs (programming and electronics skills) or simply motivated by improving education are encouraged to join.
 
2. Improve science teaching in Colombian schools.
 
Students with programming skills or simply motivated by improving education are encouraged to join.

Latest revision as of 13:31, 28 August 2015

Education and teaching Manu Forero-Shelton (Access to quality support material for teachers, low cost instrumentation, physics for biology students) Chad Leidy (physics for biology students, active learning) Juan Manuel Pedraza (Low cost instrumentation)


• The goal is to contribute to the improvement of teaching of sciences in the developing world. In particular, the goal is to develop tools to improve teacher´s access to quality material as well as to develop low-cost instrumentation for teaching and research.


• In collaboration with the CIFE (research center in education and training), a Ph.D. student in Denmark and Chad Leidy among others, we re-developed the basic physics classes taken by life science students. We included peer instruction, tutorials and other elements of active learning. An important part was the development of problems of interest to students in biology and medicine where physics is relevant.

Students interested in developing open source teaching labs (programming and electronics skills) or simply motivated by improving education are encouraged to join.