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    How to flip your course online when the world is flipping out, at Webinar, Friday, May 1, 2020:
    flip_your_course_online_11.pdf
    The sudden transition to online teaching necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic is a good opportunity to rethink our approach to teaching. In this interactive demonstration I will discuss how changing synchronous and  instructor-paced activities to asynchronous and self-paced activities not only facilitates the move to online teaching, but also provides an opportunity to improve the quality of education.
    How to flip your course online when the world is flipping out, at Webinar, Monday, May 4, 2020:
    flip_your_course_online_12.pdf
    The sudden transition to online teaching necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic is a good opportunity to rethink our approach to teaching. In this interactive demonstration I will discuss how changing synchronous and  instructor-paced activities to asynchronous and self-paced activities not only facilitates the move to online teaching, but also provides an opportunity to improve the quality of education.
    How to flip your course online when the world is flipping out, at Webinar, Tuesday, May 5, 2020:
    flip_your_course_online_13.pdf
    The sudden transition to online teaching necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic is a good opportunity to rethink our approach to teaching. In this interactive demonstration I will discuss how changing synchronous and  instructor-paced activities to asynchronous and self-paced activities not only facilitates the move to online teaching, but also provides an opportunity to improve the quality of education.
    Getting every student ready for every class, at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Monday, June 1, 2020:
    uam_webinar.pdf

    Over the past decades there has been a concerted push away from passive lecturing to active engagement in the classroom. A successful implementation of the so-called flipped classroom requires students to come to class prepared, either by reading the textbook or watching a pre-recorded video. A variety approaches have been devised to get students to take responsibility for this information transfer, but none manage to get all students to participate, compromising the in-class activities. I will present a new approach to get every student to prepare for every class using a new social...

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    How to flip your teaching, when the whole world is flipping out, at Hatem Lecture, Mt. Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA, Thursday, June 11, 2020:
    mah_lecture.pdf
    The sudden transition to online teaching necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic is a good opportunity to rethink our approach to teaching. In this interactive demonstration I will discuss how changing synchronous and  instructor-paced activities to asynchronous and self-paced activities not only facilitates the move to online teaching, but also provides an opportunity to improve the quality of education
    Promoting Social Interactions in (Remote) Education, at Harvard University, Wednesday, July 15, 2020:
    nsfhs_social_learning.pdf
    Learning is a social experience — it requires interactions and interactivity. This is true not only in the physical classroom, but even more so now that education has moved online. I will demonstrate how to move information transfer and sense making online and make it interactive, promoting social interactions between students. I will also discuss how to promote intrinsic motivation to learn by implementing project- and team-based learning in the classroom.
    Social Learning in Times of Social Isolation, at Webinar, Friday, July 31, 2020:
    remote_teaching_july_31.pdf

    Learning is a social experience — it requires interactions and interactivity. This is true not only in the physical classroom, but even more so now that education has moved online. I will demonstrate how to move information transfer and sense making online and make it interactive, promoting social interactions between students. I will also discuss how to promote intrinsic motivation to learn by implementing project- and team-based learning in the classroom.

     
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    Social Learning in Times of Social Isolation, at Webinar, Monday, August 10, 2020:
    remote_teaching_aug_10.pdf

    Learning is a social experience — it requires interactions and interactivity. This is true not only in the physical classroom, but even more so now that education has moved online. I will demonstrate how to move information transfer and sense making online and make it interactive, promoting social interactions between students. I will also discuss how to promote intrinsic motivation to learn by implementing project- and team-based learning in the classroom.

     
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    Social Learning in Times of Social Isolation, at Webinar, Wednesday, August 12, 2020:
    remote_teaching_aug_12.pdf

    Learning is a social experience — it requires interactions and interactivity. This is true not only in the physical classroom, but even more so now that education has moved online. I will demonstrate how to move information transfer and sense making online and make it interactive, promoting social interactions between students. I will also discuss how to promote intrinsic motivation to learn by implementing project- and team-based learning in the classroom.

     

     

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    Social Learning in Times of Social Isolation, at Webinar, Friday, August 14, 2020:
    remote_teaching_aug_14.pdf

    Learning is a social experience — it requires interactions and interactivity. This is true not only in the physical classroom, but even more so now that education has moved online. I will demonstrate how to move information transfer and sense making online and make it interactive, promoting social interactions between students. I will also discuss how to promote intrinsic motivation to learn by implementing project- and team-based learning in the classroom.

    Education, post-coronavirus, at Maastricht, the Netherlands, Monday, August 31, 2020:
    maastricht.pdf
    The rapid transition to online teaching necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic has been a good opportunity to rethink our approach to teaching. Moving to an online format suggests that many activities that have traditionally been synchronous and instructor-paced, can be made asynchronous and self-paced. What may have seemed like a challenge, is a great opportunity to improve the quality of education.
     
    Social Learning in Times of Social Isolation Tuesday, September 8, 2020:
    remote_teaching_sep_8.pdf

    Learning is a social experience — it requires interactions and interactivity. This is true not only in the physical classroom, but even more so now that education has moved online. I will demonstrate how to move information transfer and sense making online and make it interactive, promoting social interactions between students. I will also discuss how to promote intrinsic motivation to learn by implementing project- and team-based learning in the classroom.

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    Education, post-coronavirus, at Jornadas Virtuales de Educación, CeRP del Norte, Uruguay, Wednesday, September 30, 2020:
    cerp_education_post-coronavirus.pdf
    The rapid transition to online teaching necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic has been a good opportunity to rethink our approach to teaching. Moving to an online format suggests that many activities that have traditionally been synchronous and instructor-paced, can be made asynchronous and self-paced. What may have seemed like a challenge, is a great opportunity to improve the quality of education.
     
    Active learning and Perusall: Sharing Practices for Successful Learning Engagement, at Congreso Internacional de Lingüística Computacional y de Corpus, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia (virtual), Thursday, October 22, 2020:
    antioquia.pdf
    It has been suggested the lack of interaction in large lecture courses is to blame for the many problems facing these courses: declining enrollments, low attendance, poor evaluations, and disappointing retention. We offer a way of redesigning the classroom so interaction is introduced in many aspects of the course. This approach has shown to be effective by many instructors in a broad variety of environments. I will demonstrate some of the tools we have developed to foster this interaction.
    The surprising world of zero-index materials, at Wednesday Night Research Seminar, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Wednesday, September 23, 2020:
    wnrs_zim.pdf

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    Nanotechnology has enabled the development of nanostructured composite materials (metamaterials) with exotic optical properties not found in nature. In the most extreme case, we can create materials which support light waves that propagate with infinite phase velocity, corresponding to a refractive index of zero. This zero index can only be achieved by simultaneously controlling the electric and magnetic resonances...

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    Transform your teaching with Perusall, at Webinar, Thursday, November 5, 2020:
    transform_teaching.pdf

    Learning is a social experience — it requires interactions and interactivity. The coronavirus pandemic has been a good opportunity to rethink our approach to teaching. Moving some tasks to an online format suggests that many activities that have traditionally been synchronous and instructor-paced, can be made asynchronous and self-paced. Through Perusall, Eric Mazur, Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at...

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    Transform your teaching with Perusall, at Webinar, Thursday, November 12, 2020:
    transform_teaching_nov_12.pdf
    Learning is a social experience — it requires interactions and interactivity. The coronavirus pandemic has been a good opportunity to rethink our approach to teaching. Moving some tasks to an online format suggests that many activities that have traditionally been synchronous and instructor-paced, can be made asynchronous and self-paced. Through Perusall, Eric Mazur, Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University, will demonstrate how to move information transfer and sense-making... Read more about Transform your teaching with Perusall

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