Speaker
Prof.
Kevin Goldstein
(University of the Witwatersrand)
Description
Faced with a low pass rate, poorly prepared and disengaged students, we tried a so called “flipped” approach to teaching a 3rd year quantum mechanics course. Rather than having traditional lectures, the students where given online reading assignments on the Perusall platform. The students, could annotated the notes, pose questions and discuss the material with peers on the platform. To encourage student participation, they where assigned a grade (calculated by AI) based on the assessed quality of their annotations. The students where also assigned exercises which filled in some of the details of the notes as well as more difficult problems. During class time, we discussed questions students posed online, went over the exercises and students where asked to present solutions to some problems on a randomised roster. While there was a large increase in the pass rate over the previous year, a significant fraction of students expressed rather negative sentiments after the course. We’ll present the good, the bad and the ugly results of this teaching “experiment”.
Level for award<br> (Hons, MSc, <br> PhD, N/A)?
N/A
Apply to be<br> considered for a student <br> award (Yes / No)?
No
Primary author
Prof.
Kevin Goldstein
(University of the Witwatersrand)
