Education Workshop - APS Dept of Education and Forum on Education
Registration Deadline: February 6, 2009
Incorporating Simulations and Computer Modeling into Upper Level Physics Courses
Workshop Registration
You must sign up for the DOE Workshop when you pre-register for the March Meeting.
No on-site registration for this workshop.
Sunday, March 15
1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Westin Hotel
Adjacent to Convention Center
Cost: Free
Partial funding for this work was obtained through NSF grants DUE-0442581, NSF-PHY-0653129 and NSF- PHY-055434.
Organizer
APS Department of Education
Who Should Attend
This workshop will benefit anyone teaching or planning to teach upper level physics as well as computational physicists wishing to adopt the OSP Java libraries and OSP programs for their own teaching and research. We will discuss the general pedagogical and technical issues in the design of interactive computer-based tutorials and how OSP programs can be adapted to your local situation.
Workshop Description
This workshop will present recently developed computer-based curricular material that improves student understanding of upper-level physics topics and that makes many previously inaccessible topics accessible to undergraduate and graduate students. Participants will receive a CD containing curricular material from the Open Source Physics (OSP) project as well as the Easy Java Simulations (EJS) modeling and authoring tool. All programs are freely distributable under the GNU GPL license.
Additional information can be obtained from the ComPADRE website.
Speakers
Wolfgang Christian
Harvey Gould
Anne Cox
Chandralekha Singh
