PHYS 620 is a 3-credit class which is open to all upper level undergraduates and graduate students in physics or science education. It was first offered in the Fall, 1996. Students participate in an example of a physics class which uses interactive technology and teaching-learning methods based on contemporary physics education research.
Emphasis is placed on student interactions, concrete examples and student conceptions.
We then discussed this approach to learning with an emphasis on how it is different from the students' experiences, what they found valuable in this approach, and what troubles them. From this discussion we generated a list of questions which are related to physics education. These questions will be addressed through out the semester. This Workshop was originally developed for AAPT by Karplus, et al. In the 1970s.