June 2022

Interactive v. Traditional methods of lecturing

Dr Jacqueline Dohaney, University of Edinburgh

We had an excellent session as Jackie took us through the landmark Hake (1998) paper https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.18809 that illustrated, for the first time, the learning gains for students from an active learning approach. We met concept inventories and thought about how we could use them (and possibly even develop our own) for AUGEN TEAM research.

Take home: active learning works!

We need to advocate for more flexible timetabling for our teaching to allow more active learning approaches (note, this is not saying that the ‘lecture is dead’, it isn’t!) as well as maintain our commitment to our traditional active learning strategies like field work and practical classes.

Audio transcript available here, passcode: z&9u!3%y

Video recording available here, passcode: z&9u!3%y

February 2022

We held an excellent discussion session in conjunction with the annual AUGEN TEAM meeting in February 2022. This involved workshopping two research questions and developing plans for AUGEN Geoscience Education Research into the future - watch this space!