Lec 14 MIT CMS.930 Media, Education and the Marketplace
my name is John belshire I'm in the department of physics at MIT uh I'd like to describe the teal program that I'm uh involved in here teal stands for technology enhanced Active Learning uh so I'm teaching freshman physics introductory physics using a lot of technology and in an active learning environment I'd like to describe what we're doing in both of those aspects both the technology and the active learning aspect let me first say a little bit about my background I've been at MIT for 30 years uh in the early 90s I taught the large freshman Physics course in electromagnetism uh everyone at MIT has to take two terms of physics uh mechanics and electromagnetism so we have large enrollment courses in particular the course I taught uh in the early 90s had 700 students in it that's normally taught in a passive manner that is it's lecture recitation 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of recitation uh I would do the lectures and a number of Fac...