The Interactive Learning Toolkit

Presentation Date: 

Monday, September 8, 2003

Location: 

Physics Colloquium, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) (Worchester, MA)

Presentation Slides: 

Research into new approaches to undergraduate science education has led to significant changes in our understanding of how large classes should be taught. Instructors who have implemented these new research based techniques have experienced dramatic improvements in student understanding. We have taken two proven pedagogical methods, 'Just in Time Teaching' (JiTT) and 'Peer Instruction' (PI) and implemented them in our 'Interactive Learning Toolkit' (ILT). In developing ILT, our focus has been to save the instructor time and use technology to bring interaction in the classroom.