<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><b>CORRECTION:</b><div><br></div><div>Prof Pritchard’s lecture is in 10-250 tomorrow.</div><div><br></div><div>- Molly</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 3, 2014, at 1:36 PM, Molly Ruggles <<a href="mailto:ruggles@mit.edu">ruggles@mit.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Hi colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>Tomorrow, at 4 pm (26-100 on MIT campus), a talk of note…..</div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;">What Do Students Learn, What From, What Should They Learn, An Example, Can MOOCs Help?</span><br><h2 style="margin: 10pt 0in 0.0001pt; page-break-after: avoid; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri; color: blue; font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></h2><div style="margin: 0in -9pt 0.0001pt 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">David E. Pritchard, Green Professor Physics, MIT; developer of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://masteringphysics.com/">MasteringPhysics.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in -9pt 0.0001pt 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">Data from our<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://masteringphysics.com/">MasteringPhysics.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>online tutor showed<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>tremendous</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>learning, but little evidence that students think like a physicist.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="">Further disquieting news comes from investigations of exactly what students learned, how much they remembered as seniors, the role of homework copying, the limitations of partial credit grading, and the great disparity between what physics teachers want to teach and what our students want to learn.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>I shall present evidence that a blended on-campus course can teach physics expertise.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Then I’ll describe a vision of how research, development, online learning and MOOCs can be combined to spread better learning universally.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br></div></blockquote><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Molly</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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