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[Phys-l] Confessions of a Converted Lecturer

Chuck Britton (2011) in his post "Confessions of a Converted Lecturer" wrote:

"Confessions of a Converted Lecturer
Speaker: Eric Mazur
<http://pirsa.org/10110081/> "

That talk "Confessions of a Converted Lecturer" [Mazur (2010)] is also on UTube at <http://bit.ly/dBYsXh>. The abstract, slides, and references - sometimes obscured in the UTube talk - are at <http://bit.ly/9qzDIq > as a 4 MB pdf.

The abstract reads: "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."

As of 17 Feb 2011 14:00:00-0800 Eric's talk had been viewed 32,743 times. In contrast, serious articles in the education literature (or even posts such as this one on physics discussion lists) are often read only by the author and a few cloistered specialists, creating tsunamis in educational practice equivalent to those produced by a pebble dropped into the Pacific Ocean.


Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands
President, PEdants for Definitive Academic References which Recognize the
Invention of the Internet (PEDARRII)
<rrhake@earthlink.net>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi>
<http://HakesEdStuff.blogspot.com>
<http://iub.academia.edu/RichardHake>

REFERENCES [All URL's accessed on 17 Febt 2011; some URL's shortened by
<http://bit.ly/>.]

Britton, C. 2011. "Confessions of a Converted Lecturer," Phys-L post of 16 Feb 2011 16:59:34 -0500; online at <http://bit.ly/etaF5f>.

Mazur, E. 2009. "Confessions of a Converted Lecturer" talk at the University of Maryland on 11 November 2009. That talk is now on UTube at <http://bit.ly/dBYsXh>, and the abstract, slides, and references - sometimes obscured in the UTube talk - are at <http://tinyurl.com/ybc53jw> as a 4 MB pdf.