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Mathematics Instruction Colloquium

Envisioning Curriculum Reform
Corinne A. Manogue
Department of Physics, Oregon State University
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
4:15 PM
Gould Simpson 849

You are thinking that your courses need more pizzazz, but revitalizing your curriculum seems intimidating. How do you modernize the content while maintaining the strengths of the traditional curriculum? What "hidden curriculum" issues do you need to address to prepare your students for the future? Can you balance the curricular needs of students bound for industry, graduate school, and other more interdisciplinary careers? The successful, NSF-funded Paradigms in Physics project at Oregon State University suggests answers to these questions, many of which are quick and easy to implement. Our project has involved both a rearrangement of content to better reflect the way professional physicists think about the field and also the use of a number of reform pedagogies which place responsibility for learning more firmly in the hands of the students. I will share some of our joyful experiences and hard-learned lessons.

Refreshments will be served.
Event submitted 22 Sep 2009 by Ji Li.