SCALE-UP (Student Centered Activities for Large Enrollment University Physics)

物理(13)以学生为中心的大学物理大招生活动(放大)项目的主要目标是确定在大招生物理课程中建立高度协作、动手、计算机丰富的互动学习环境的最佳方式。我们从广泛的教育研究中了解到，学生应该在有趣的任务上合作，并积极参与到他们正在学习的材料中。北卡罗来纳州立大学物理系在以这种方式授课的中小规模班级方面取得了相当大的成功，目前正在寻找扩大创新的最佳方式，以便选修大量工程物理课程的学生能够受益。该项目将多名讲师的讲课和实验室合并在一起，应该会为传统的讲授导向型教学提供一种经济的替代方案。该项目涉及支持这种类型学习的新课程材料的开发、评估和传播。放大项目有可能从根本上改变大型学院和大学教授物理的方式。教学技术应该足够普遍，以鼓励在其他科学、工程和数学课程中进行类似的改革。

Physics (13) The primary goal of the Student- Centered Activities for Large Enrollment University Physics (SCALE-UP) Project is to determine the best way to establish a highly collaborative, hands-on, computer-rich, interactive learning environment in large-enrollment physics courses. We know from extensive educational research that students should collaborate on interesting tasks and be actively involved with the material they are learning. The Physics Department at North Carolina State University has had considerable success with small and intermediate-sized classes taught this way and is now searching for the best way to 'scale-up' the innovations so that students taking the large enrollment engineering physics courses can benefit. The project is folding together lecture and lab with multiple instructors in a way that should provide an economical alternative to traditional lecture-oriented instruction. The project involves the development, evaluation, and dissemination of new curricular materials that will support this type of learning. The SCALE-UP Project has the potential to radically change the way physics is taught at large colleges and universities. The pedagogical techniques should be general enough to encourage similar reforms in other science, engineering, and mathematics classes.