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Using MOOC’s in an Interactive Classroom

John W. Belcher

Kavli Center for Astrophysics and Space Research

Department of Physics

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Teaching Freshman Physics Interactively at MIT

Description of what we currently do (8.02 TEAL)

Description of 8.02x the MOOC

Bringing aspects of 8.02x the MOOC back into residential 8.02 TEAL

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One of the two MIT TEAL Classrooms

Modeled after NCSU’s SCALE-UP Classroom

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Ideal TEAL Sequence(instructor’s fantasy)

1.Instruction (aka Lecture)2.Pre-Experiment Predictions3.Experiment4.Visualization of ExperimentI will illustrate this sequence

for Faraday’s Law

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Magnetic Flux

Move down

1. Instruction: Faraday’s Law

Bd

dt

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Magnetic Flux

Move down

2. Pre-Experiment Predictions

Personal Response System used for pre-experiment questions and responses

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3. Experiment

Experiment includes sliding an aluminum sleeve over the magnet and feeling the slowdown due to

eddy currents

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8.02x the MOOC

Wholly online, online textbook Based on Walter Lewin’s 2002

lectures as a whole (36 lectures) Lectures are broken up with

interactive questions Problem Sets Interactive Simulations All computer graded

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Bringing back some of 8.02x the MOOC into 8.02 TEAL

Blended content from MOOCCut down the amount of

lecturing in 8.02 TEAL, push that into online MOOC

Leave more time for interaction in class

Cut down the total face time?