Shaw-IAU Workshops by the OAE

Active learning methods have been successfully used to teach science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) subjects at all levels of formal education. In this talk I will show what can be accomplished by combining three of these methods - flipped classroom, just-in-time teaching and peer instruction - to teach astronomy to undergraduate students enrolled in STEAM courses. I will also present effective ways the instructor can use, under this approach, to assess the students’ learning without written exams.

Biography:

Newton Figueiredo is a physics and astronomy professor at Universidade Federal de Itajubá, in Brazil. He has a PhD degree in astrophysics from the National Institute of Space Research. His research interest include active learning methods to teach physics and astronomy to undergraduate and graduate students.

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