Confessions of a converted lecturer

Auteur·e: Ariane Elsig
19 octobre 2012
Catégorie(s): Articles

Professeur en physique à l’Université d’Harvard, reconnu internationalement pour ses travaux de recherche, le Professeur Eric Mazur s’intéresse également à l’éducation, en particulier à la sensibilisation de ses étudiant-e-s à la science. Il consacre ainsi une partie de ses recherches à trouver des moyens vérifiables visant à améliorer l’enseignement des sciences

Cette conférence fût l’occasion pour des professionnels de l’enseignement de tout horizon, en Suisse et en France voisine, de découvrir sa méthode dite de peer instruction, permettant notamment l’interactivité dans les grands auditoires.

Références

Eric Mazur (1997). Peer Instruction: A User’s Manual Series in Educational Innovation. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ

Nouveau! Une version traduite en français est disponible auprès des Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes (ISBN 978-2-88915-082-3).


C. Crouch & E. Mazur (2001). Peer Instruction: Ten Years of Experience and Results, Am. J. Phys., v69, 970-977

(Conférence)

Confessions of a converted lecturer

I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material. Who was to blame? The students? The material? I will explain how I came to the agonizing conclusion that the culprit was neither of these. It was my teaching that caused students to fail! I will show how I have adjusted my approach to teaching and how it has improved my students’ performance significantly.

(Workshop)

Catalyzing Learning Using Peer Instruction and Learning Catalytics

Most — if not all — of the important skills in our lives are acquired outside the traditional classroom setting. Yet we continue to teach using lectures where students passively take down information. Peer instruction is a research-based pedagogy that actively engages students in the classroom and has been shown to dramatically improve conceptual understanding, even in large classes. While successfully implementing peer instruction doesn’t require any technology, using the right technology can improve student engagement, increase learning, and make it easier to implement peer instruction in your classroom. In this workshop you will learn how to use Learning Catalytics — a web-based technology — to bring peer instruction to your students.

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