Joe Lauher, a professor of chemistry at Stony Brook, describes how he and a team of his colleagues transformed their organic chemistry course. This course is taught to over a thousand students each year in a lecture hall that seats 560 students. Joe discusses how the introduction of clickers has engaged his students by forcing them to think about and discuss the content with fellow students during the large lectures. In particular, he discusses how the questions posed to the class need to be written to generate discussion. In additon, he and his team have used portable computer equipment to enable them to leave the stage and mingle with the audience while still controlling the presentation and writing on the screen. He discusses how "teaching from the floor" has changed the intimacy of the class and his knowledge of the students. Joe is joined by Nancy Wozniak, a learning architect within the TLT Faculty Center. Nancy talks about active learning and how The Faculty Center can provide support for making their courses more student centric.
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Clyp4JIfo
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgEsr5e0JRg
