The following NSF sponsored Chautauqua courses may be of interest to you.
Please contact me if you want more information.
Chautauqua Short Courses: Promoting Active Learning in Introductory
Physics Courses. Instructors: Priscilla Laws, David Sokoloff and Ronald
Thornton
June 11-13, Kapi'olani Community College, Honolulu, Hawaii
May 28-30, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
These NSF-sponsored Chautauqua courses are designed for those interested in
making major changes in introductory physics courses or in other
introductory science courses. The focus will be on giving participants
direct experience with methods for promoting active student involvement in
the learning process through activity-based physics strategies using
computers and the research-based Workshop Physics, Tools for Scientific
Thinking and RealTime Physics curricula. (The microcomputer-based tools
used are available for Macintosh, Windows and MS-DOS computers.) Open to
teachers of undergraduate students in institutions of higher education in
the U.S. High school teachers and faculty from outside the U.S. are also
admitted if space is available. There is a small application fee, but no
tuition. We anticipate that special airfares and reasonably-priced
accommodations in dormitories and hotels will be arranged.
For more information contact:
David Sokoloff
Department of Physics
1274 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1274,
E-mail: sokoloff@oregon.uoregon.edu
Phone: (541) 346-4755,
Fax: (541) 346-5861.
David R. Sokoloff
Associate Professor and Associate Head
Department of Physics
1274 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1274