Remodeling University Physics Synopsis of the Remodeling UP Project For several years, we have been developing a University Physics course organized around models and modeling to make the subject matter and procedural knowledge more explicit, systematic and coherent.
Students work in collaborative groups in a technology-rich studio classroom.
With well-documented success in a small classroom environment, we are currently adapting the approach to a large classroom and developing workshops for wide dissemination. Internet courses will be cheaper, more convenient and certainly no less effective. They can be designed and delivered by outstanding professors and enhanced by multimedia affordances comparable to resources of the entertainment industry. Internet education is projected to be a billion-dollar industry within the next decade. With a potential world-wide audience, costs for design and production of a single course may approach a million dollars.