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Wrestling with Pedagogical Change: The TEAL Initiative at MIT
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Breslow, Lori – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2010
In the late 1990s, the physics department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) had a problem. The department was responsible for teaching the two required physics courses that are part of the General Institute Requirements (GIRs), MIT's core curriculum--Physics I (mechanics, or in MIT parlance, 8.01) and Physics II (electricity and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Core Curriculum, Science Interests, Mechanics (Physics)