Learning environment

Online vs live physics demonstrations: does it make a difference?

Students enjoy online demos just as much as live demos, but may learn more from online demos.

Those sitting near someone on their laptop scored 17% lower on a test than those sitting near someone taking notes

If you guessed lecture, you would be correct. However, students also expect some non-lecturing.

Even though students learn more in active learning environments, students still feel they learn more in traditional lecture settings.

75% of undergraduate women in physics report experiencing some form of sexual harassment.

Physics labs can be done with physical equipment or done virtually. It appears each has its own benefits.

Prior work has claimed that taking notes by hand is better than on a computer but this claim doesn’t appear to hold up.

Yep, women who perform the same as men perform don’t feel they are as capable of doing physics.

Workshops are successful in introducing new teaching strategies but less so in sustaining them. How the strategies are introduced matters.

A student’s network could have an impact on whether they decide to continue their degree program. Today’s paper looks into this issue.