Visual Electricity and Magnetism: A Focussed Concept Laboratory

物理学这个项目正在开发一个电学和磁学实验室。该实验室旨在为每个学生提供一种学习体验，将当前具有研究兴趣的物理概念与使概念有趣和易于处理的重点相结合。视觉、电学和磁性是通过一系列相关的实验来定义的，这些实验导致在一个学期结束时有一个明确的目标。合作学习小组的结构化环境加强了沟通、团队合作和批判性思维。每个小组由一名实验者、一名理论家、一名裁判和一名编辑组成。在每个学生熟悉实验室实验后，学习小组聚集在一起。每个小组收集数据，分析数据，批评分析，并准备一天的成就总结。组分配和组内分配定期轮换。这确保了每个学生都有几次机会在同一组中以及在不同学生组成的其他组中执行一项明确定义的任务。由实验室练习册、LabVIEW(TM)软件和课程相关材料组成的课程由National Instruments在其网站上发布。除了基于网络的出版外，National Instruments还能够在光盘上传播视觉电学和磁性。

Physics (13) This project is developing a laboratory for electricity and magnetism. The laboratory is designed to provide a learning experience for each student that merges a physical concept having current research interest with a focus that makes the concept interesting and tractable. Visual Electricity and Magnetism is defined by a series of related experiments that lead to a clearly defined goal at the end of one semester. Communication, team work, and critical thinking are enhanced by the structured environment of cooperative learning groups. Each group consists of an experimentalist, a theorist, a referee, and an editor. After each student becomes acquainted with a laboratory experiment, the learning groups assemble. Each group collects data, analyzes the data, critiques the analysis, and prepares a summary of the day's accomplishments. Group assignments and assignments within a group are rotated periodically. This insures that each student has several opportunities to perform one of the well-defined tasks within the same group, and within other groups of different student composition. Courseware consisting of a Laboratory Workbook, LabVIEW (TM) software, and course related material is published by National Instruments on their web site. In addition to Web based publishing, National Instruments has the capability to distribute Visual Electricity and Magnetism on a compact disk.