Scott Kincaid
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One of 2 interactive TEAL--Technology Enabled Active Learning--classrooms. The 3000 sq ft spaces, which seats 118 students with the faculty in the center, transformed a passive lecture model (of 350 students) into an interactive format. Physics 101 is required of all MIT students. The room includes three PCs at each table (of 8-9 students), whiteboards for each team, some 13 screens (so no sight line problems), 13 cameras (one per team whiteboard), and interactive response clickers for each student.
The lecture has been replaced by a constant series of experiments with students required to solve in groups; groups regularly report back their results to class (verbally, via clickers, via whiteboard or via PC software). The instructor (and TA's) roam the space and the many video cameras allow for instructor to show any team's work to the entire class with ease. See my separate FLICKR collection which has more photos of this space.
More info at web.mit.edu/edtech/casestudies/teal.html
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One of 2 interactive TEAL--Technology Enabled Active Learning--classrooms. The 3000 sq ft spaces, which seats 118 students with the faculty in the center, transformed a passive lecture model (of 350 students) into an interactive format. Physics 101 is required of all MIT students. The room includes three PCs at each table (of 8-9 students), whiteboards for each team, some 13 screens (so no sight line problems), 13 cameras (one per team whiteboard), and interactive response clickers for each student.
The lecture has been replaced by a constant series of experiments with students required to solve in groups; groups regularly report back their results to class (verbally, via clickers, via whiteboard or via PC software). The instructor (and TA's) roam the space and the many video cameras allow for instructor to show any team's work to the entire class with ease. See my separate FLICKR collection which has more photos of this space.
More info at web.mit.edu/edtech/casestudies/teal.html