Using Hands-on Learning Modules to Address Challenging Concepts in Electricity and Magnetism

James Rutter; Nigel Standish; Glen Bull

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 1510–1515

This project explores the use of hands-on learning modules to address common misconceptions in electricity and magnetism (E&M). Part of our research has demonstrated that there are common misconceptions with the abstract concepts of E&M, for example ...

Topics: Engineering Education

Visual Representations of Periodic Motion

Nigel Standish; Peter Malcolm; Glen Bull; David Slykhuis; Eric Bredder

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 3061–3065

Using TPACK as a model for preservice teacher education, we have developed two in class activities for undergraduates that display periodic motion. First the use of paint flowing from a bucket that is suspended above craft paper as a pendulum. When...

Science Gains in an Engineering Unit using Digital Fabrication

Nigel Standish; David Slykhuis; Glen Bull; James Rutter

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 1516–1522

The Laboratory School for Advanced Manufacturing was established as a bricks-and-mortar test bed by the University of Virginia in collaboration with the Albemarle and Charlottesville school systems to identify effective ways of connecting...

Topics: Engineering Education