Problem-Based Approaches to Physics: Changing Perspectives in Higher Education

PRELIMS.pdf
	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Author biography
		Derek Jeffrey Raine
CH001.pdf
	Chapter 1 Teaching and learning in higher education
		1.1 The changing environment
		1.2 Developments and drivers
		1.3 Strategically important subjects
		1.4 Supply side
		1.5 Innovations in pedagogy
		1.6 Excellence and curriculum design
		1.7 Problem-based approaches
		References
CH002.pdf
	Chapter 2 The curriculum and design science
		2.1 How students learn
		2.2 The learning cycle
		2.3 Affective learning: motivation
		2.4 History of problem-based approaches
		2.5 Enquiry and collaboration
		2.6 Research–teaching nexus
		2.7 Technology
		2.8 Constructive alignment: design science
		2.9 Personalised curriculum
		References
CH003.pdf
	Chapter 3 Alignment
		3.1 Outcomes
		3.2 Engagement
		3.3 Metacognition
		3.4 Formative and summative assessment
		3.5 Authentic assessment
		3.6 Authenticity and employability
		References
CH004.pdf
	Chapter 4 Implementing problem-based approaches
		4.1 What is a ‘problem’?
			Example 1: a problem like Maria
			Example 2: Nefertiti
		4.2 The learning cycle
		4.3 Scaffolding problem-based approaches
		4.4 Managing problem-based approaches: shapes and sizes
		4.5 Managing problem-based approaches: facilitation
		4.6 Managing problem-based approaches: groups
		4.7 Managing assessment and feedback
		4.8 Managing change
		4.9 Putting it together: an example
		References
CH005.pdf
	Chapter 5 Problem-based physics (and other disciplines)
		5.1 Sources of problems
			Example 1
			Example 2
			Example 3
			Example 4: Peter Pan’s shadow
			Example 5: quantum theory and relativity
			Example 6: quantum dots
			Example 7: physics challenge
			Example 8: Journal of Special Topics
		5.2 Laboratory PBL
			A desert island problem
			Wet sand revisited
		5.3 Induction
			UltraKleene
		5.4 Other disciplines
		5.5 Management
		References
CH006.pdf
	Chapter 6 Do problem-based approaches work?
		6.1 Results from active learning
		6.2 Meta-analyses of the impact of PBL
		6.3 Employers’ views on graduate employability
		6.4 Buy-in from staff and senior management
		6.5 Problem-based approaches across cultures
		6.6 The future of problem-based pedagogies
		References
CH007.pdf
	Chapter 7 Problem-based approaches: looking to the future
		7.1 Structural change: the teaching focussed lecturer
		7.2 Physics and society
		7.3 What is physics?
		7.4 Interdisciplinarity
		7.5 Personalised curricula
		7.6 Sustainability
		References