Title: |
An Online Modern Physics
Course for In-Service Teachers |
Meeting: |
126th AAPT National Meeting:
Austin, TX |
Location: |
Pecos |
Date: |
Monday, Jan. 13 |
Time: |
11:00 a.m. |
Author: |
Dean A. Zollman, Kansas
State Univ.
785-532-1619,
dzollman@phys.ksu.edu |
Co-Author(s): |
Kevin Zollman, Kirsten Hogg,
Salomon F. Itza-Ortiz |
Abstract:
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For the past 15 years Kansas
State University has offered a course on contemporary physics that
targets secondary education majors. The course is a nonmathematical
introduction to 20th century physics. In recent years in-service
teachers who live primarily in rural areas and wish to upgrade their
knowledge of contemporary physics have shown an interest in completing
this course. To meet this need, the course has been adapted to an online
format. In the present version the course involves an experiment kit
that is sent to the teachers, online worksheets with a provision for
frequent feedback from the instructor and visualization software. In its
present version the course has been offered for about three years.
During this time we have discovered both advantages and disadvantages of
this instruction approach. |
Footnotes:
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None |
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