Technology-enhanced active learning

Technology-enhanced active learning, or TEAL, is an alternative method of teaching that MIT pioneered.[1] Led by Professor John Belcher,[2] the TEAL approach showed that it was possible to challenge the passive or recitation style[3] of teaching, common in large classes and re-enforced by lecture halls architecture. Despite having excellent math results, many first-year students had not transitioned across to the way lecturers teach and 40% of students dropped out of first year physics education at MIT.[4] The TEAL approach set out to assist students to "visualize, develop better intuition about, and conceptual models" of scientific concepts.[5]

  1. ^ "Educational Transformation through Technology at MIT - TEAL". web.mit.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-16.
  2. ^ "Improving Student Understanding With Teal". web.mit.edu. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
  3. ^ Dourmashkin, Peter; Tomasik, Michelle; Rayyan, Saif (2020), Mintzes, Joel J.; Walter, Emily M. (eds.), "The TEAL Physics Project at MIT", Active Learning in College Science: The Case for Evidence-Based Practice, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 499–520, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-33600-4_31, ISBN 978-3-030-33600-4, retrieved 2024-09-04
  4. ^ "Educational Transformation through Technology at MIT - TEAL". web.mit.edu. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
  5. ^ "Studio Physics". gallery.carnegiefoundation.org. Retrieved 2024-09-04.