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DTSTART:20151207T180000Z
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LOCATION:4274 Chamberlin
SUMMARY:Online Activities to Improve In Person Learning\, Physics Educ
 ation Innovation Forum\, Tim Stelzer\, University of Illinois at Urban
 a-Champaign
DESCRIPTION:Students’ unprecedented access to content on the web is 
 providing a unique opportunity to transform the role lectures in educa
 tion\, moving the focus from content delivery to helping students synt
 hesize the content into knowledge. We have introduced a variety of act
 ivities to facilitate this transformation at the University of Illinoi
 s\, including web-based preflight assessments of student understanding
  before lecture\, peer instruction (clickers) to assess and facilitate
  student understanding during lecture\, and web-based multimedia pre-l
 ectures designed to provide students with content before lecture.  In 
 this talk I will discuss the pedagogical motivation for introducing th
 ese activities\, and the impact they have had at the University of Ill
 inois<br><br>
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\nBio:  Professor Timothy Stelzer received hi
 s bachelor's degree in physics from St. John's University in 1988\, an
 d his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 199
 3.  A high-energy particle theorist\, Professor Stelzer has concentrat
 ed on standard model physics at hadron colliders.  He has also been he
 avily involved with the Physics Education Group at Illinois\, where he
  has led the development and implementation of tools for assessing the
  effectiveness of educational innovations in introductory courses and 
 expanding the use of web technology in physics pedagogy. He was instru
 mental in the development of the I-clicker™ and is a regular on the 
 University's "Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their
  Students."<br><br>
\nHe and collaborators were selected by the Americ
 an Physical Society to receive the 2013 Excellence in Education Award 
 in recognition of their creation of smartPhysics\, a web-based learnin
 g environment.  He also received the UW Department of Physics' Disting
 uished Alumni Award in May 2015.
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=3875
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