Teaching Forum Vol 5:1 Fall 2002 Newsletter

Using Technology to Engage Student Learning

• Highlights from a Conversation with Eric Mazur
  Eric Mazur of Harvard University, this year's Department of Physics and Astronomy Forman Lecturer, spoke about teaching philosophies and the role technology plays in his physics courses as a luncheon hosted by the CFT during his visit to Vanderbilt. This article contains selected excerpts from those remarks.

• For More Information
  This sidebar to the above article contains information and links related to Professor Mazur's research group and some of the teaching tools he mentions in his comments.

• Notes from the CFT Library: Books on Teaching Online
  Editor Derek Bruff reviews three books on the tools and theory of teaching online.

• From the Student's View: Laptops In (and Outside) the Classroom
  In this column, students at the Owen Graduate School of Management and the School of Engineering discuss how the use of computer laptops has affected them both in and outside the classroom.

• The Teaching Exchange: Technology and Challenge-Based Learning
  Two faculty members associated with the VaNTH Engineering Research Center, Duco Jansen and Stacy Klein, discuss how their teaching has changed as a result of their exposure to VaNTH's research into bioengineering educational technologies.

• Services of the CFT: Teaching with Technology Mini-Grants
  This article describes the CFT's teaching with technology mini-grant program and features comments by a past mini-grant recipient, Gregory Barz of the Blair School of Music, about how his teaching has changed as a result of use of new technologies.

• Educational Technology One-Stop
  The CFT is pleased to announce a Web site designed to enhance awareness of resources available at Vanderbilt and on the Internet to support the integration of educational technologies in teaching and learning.

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