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Direct linkWallace, Colin S.; Hatcher, Chase; Chambers, Timothy G.; Hornstein, Seth D.; Kamenetzky, Julia; Prather, Edward E. – Physics Teacher, 2021
The ground-breaking image of a black hole's event horizon, which captured the public's attention and imagination in April 2019, was captured using the power of interferometry: many separate telescopes working together to observe the cosmos in incredible detail. Many recent astrophysical discoveries that have revolutionized the scientific…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Science Equipment, Measurement Equipment, Active Learning
Ryu, Sangjin; Zhang, Haipeng; Peteranetz, Markeya; Daher, Tareq – Physics Teacher, 2020
Current K-12 and undergraduate students have grown up with constant exposure to visual popular culture (e.g., movies, TV programs, graphic novels, etc.). Because youth find pop culture references in the classroom to be engaging, many science and engineering instructors have shown that examples found in visual pop culture can be used to teach…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Popular Culture, Cartoons, Novels
Balint, Trevor A.; Teodorescu, Raluca; Colvin, Kimberly; Choi, Youn-Jeng; Pritchard, David – Physics Teacher, 2017
In this paper we examine how different types of participants in a physics Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) tend to use the existing course resources. We use data from the 2013 offering of the Massive Open Online Course 8.MReVx designed by the RELATE (REsearch in Learning Assessing and Tutoring Effectively) Group at the Massachusetts Institute of…
Descriptors: Physics, Online Courses, Instructional Materials, Educational Resources
Mohottala, Hashini E. – Physics Teacher, 2011
The advances of the digital age have made the duty and responsibility of the professor more complex and involved. The Internet has made powerful and useful tools available to us to disseminate knowledge in an interesting and effective manner. In this article, I discuss one such tool: Wikispaces (wikis)--a set of interactive web pages that can be…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Web Sites, Physics, Instructional Materials
