Take the interactive workshop on DVD
The Interactive Teaching DVD
Interactive Teaching offers tangible ways for professors to implement the Peer Instruction and Just-in-Time Teaching methods in their classrooms. Included on the DVD is the award-winning film From Questions to Concepts, which demonstrates the process.
- From Questions to Concepts has won awards at:
- 2005 WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival
- 2004 Columbus International Film Festival
- 2004 Communicator Awards
DVD Synopsis
How can you engage your students and be sure they are learning the conceptual foundations of a lecture course? The Interactive Teaching DVD introduces Peer Instruction and Just-in-Time Teaching—two innovative techniques for lectures that use in-class discussion and immediate feedback to improve student learning. These techniques have found a growing following in many disciplines.
In this DVD, Harvard University physicist Eric Mazur demonstrates the use of Peer Instruction and Just-in-Time Teaching. The DVD serves as an interactive workshop that can be used by individual teachers or in group training sessions to learn about these techniques. New and experienced teachers can navigate at their own pace and focus on what interests them.
With step-by-step instruction, techniques demonstrated in a real classroom setting, and an exploration of frequently asked questions, this DVD will help you implement interactive teaching in your own classroom.
DVD Awards
The Interactive Teaching DVD includes From Questions to Concepts, a documentary that explores Eric Mazur's interactive teaching methods in an undergraduate physics course.
From Questions to Concepts has won awards at:
2005 WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival
2004 Columbus International Film Festival
2004 Communicator Awards
DVD Credits
Interactive Teaching was produced by the Derek Bok Center in collaboration with Spectrum Media and the Mazur Group.
The Derek Bok Center was established in 1975 to support and improve teaching and learning in Harvard College. The Derek Bok Center makes its services, publications and videos available to the broader university teaching community.
Executive Producer/Educational Consultant: James Wilkinson, Director
Spectrum Media is a full-service production company with over thirty-five years of experience producing documentary, educational, and corporate films and videos. The company's strong background creating educational films, focusing largely on teacher training, science education, and children’s programming, has been recognized with numerous national and international awards.
Producer/Director: Jamil Simon
Associate Producer: Nina Farouk
Graphic Designer/DVD Author: Leila Simon
Producer/Editor: Eric Neudel
The Mazur Group conducts research in Applied Physics and Science Education in the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University.
Physicist/Author/Educational Consultant: Eric Mazur
As the world's leading publisher of academic and reference textbooks, Prentice Hall is committed to providing the most innovative, flexible, and powerful educational materials available today.
Acknowledgements
Narration by Mary-Ellen Whitaker.
Thanks to Professors Howard Georgi, Judith Herzfeld, and Rebecca Younkin; Drs. Veronica McCauley and Martin Vogt; Jessica Watkins; students and others who participated in the production of this DVD.
Photographs of students with flashcards provided by David E. Meltzer and Kandish Manivannan.
Educational Consultant: Prassede Calabi, Mindfire Consulting