Class format and Pedagogy
Lab-based pedagogy
- Strong emphasis on active learning
- integration of lecture/discussion and lab
- Typical class session:
- Duration 110 minutes
- Meets in lab
- Online readings for each day
- Begin with lecture/discussion
- Often polling/clickers questions to clarify points from lecture/reading
- Transition to structured lab exercises
- Lab work done collaboratively, with partners changing weekly
Assigned Work—variety of individual and collaborative work
- Selected labs submitted for grade (collaborative)
- several required
- a few available for extra credit
- programming assignments (individual)
- 5 required
- 9 available for extra credit
- A few 1-3 day projects to integration several topics
(collaborative)
- weekly quizzes (individual, about 25-30 minutes)
- one mid-semester test (individual, full class period)
- final exam (individual)
Day-by-day
schedule and materials
