Technology-enhanced active learning
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Technology-enhanced active learning, or TEAL, is an alternative method of teaching that MIT pioneered .[1] Led by Professor John Belcher[2], the TEAL approach showed that it was possible to challenge the passive or recitation style[3] of teaching, common in large classes and re-enforced by lecture halls architecture. Despite having excellent math results, many first-year students had not transitioned across to the way lecturers teach and 40% of students dropped out of first year physics education at MIT[4] The TEAL approach set out to assist students to "visualize, develop better intuition about, and conceptual models" of scientific concepts.[5]
A situated model for teaching with technology
The TEAL approach, alternately referred to as Studio Physics,[6] eschewed the traditional university lecture, which encouraged passivity. Using a collaborative active learning approach, students would sit in groups of nine around 13 tables, where they were expected to complete problem-solving activities, refer to laptop computers and then project their own solutions on a screen and compare the results with their peers.
History behind TEAL
The TEAL alternative was based on a pedagogical model that was instituted at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute by Jack Wilson in 1994. Since the TEAL approach had a robust assessment component, the implementors were able to understand the students perspective on the learning environment. Class attendance was a key component of the course, and students had to see this as a profitable use of their time.
Current Use
In 2014 TEAL+x, emerged, a combination between the TEAL format with MITx.[7] The TEAL approach is currently in use at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, North Carolina State University, University of Colorado, Harvard University, and the University of Maryland.[8]
See also
References
- ^ "Educational Transformation through Technology at MIT - TEAL". web.mit.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-16.
- ^ https://web.mit.edu/fnl/vol/162/belcher.htm
- ^ https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-33600-4_31
- ^ http://web.mit.edu/edtech/casestudies/teal.html
- ^ http://gallery.carnegiefoundation.org/collections/keep/jbelcher/
- ^ http://gallery.carnegiefoundation.org/collections/keep/jbelcher/
- ^ https://openlearning.mit.edu/mit-faculty/residential-digital-innovations/teal-mitx
- ^ Rimer, Sara (2009-01-13). "At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-10-16.
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