UZH - Teaching Science at University
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Teaching Science at University at Coursera Overview
Duration | 13 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Teaching Science at University at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Beginner Level
- Approx. 13 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: French, Portuguese (European), Russian, English, Spanish
Teaching Science at University at Coursera Course details
- This course will prepare you for teaching science in higher education. In this MOOC you will learn to make your knowledge as an excellent researcher accessible to your students. We will show you how to communicate science to novices as well as advanced students in science. You will experience the value of teaching with analogies and you will be guided to train your students' competences. Based on up-to-date findings from research into teaching and learning science you will be able to
- - implement evidence-based strategies into your own teaching,
- - use students everyday-conceptions for the development of courses,
- - prepare analogies and models to teach in your field,
- - implement problem-based teaching,
- - set up for experiments and teach the nature of science.
- This course enables you to teach abstract science topics to your students and make them become active and successful learners. The course is based on lectures (videos), handouts (knowledge-to practice briefs), which supplement the knowledge taught in the lectures and assignments to implement the teaching strategies into your own practice.
Teaching Science at University at Coursera Curriculum
Introduction: Teaching and Learning Science
Course Overview
Evidence-based science teaching
Rate teaching strategies
How the brain computes information
from behaviourism...
...to constructivism
Encouraging higher order thinking
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READ ME!! How to get the most out of our course
K2P Brief #1 Formative Assessment
K2P Brief #2 Powerful Feedback
READ ME - Help FLAG those who weaken the peer review system
READ ME, TOO - IMPORTANT general instructions for assignments and how they are graded
K2P Brief #15 Effective Peer Review
Conceptual Change
Identifying everyday conceptions
No teaching without everyday conceptions
Assessing your students conceptions
Learning as conceptual change
Learning as ontological change
Tips for engagement
K2P Brief #3 Initiating Conceptual Change
K2P Brief #4 Making Conceptual Change Happen
Teaching with analogies
Why science is hard to grasp
Using analogies
How to teach analogies
Successful instructional analogies
Multiple representations in science
K2P Brief #5 Big Ideas in Science
K2P Brief #6 Backward Design
K2P Brief #7 - Teaching with Analogies - part 1
K2P Brief #8: Teaching with Analogies - part 2
(Re-)Frame your science teaching
Make science relevant
Active learning with socioscientific issues
Tasks for active learners
Active Learning with Digital Tools
Setting goals for students
Supervision of theses
Communication risk and uncertainity
K2P Brief #9 Connecting Science and Society
K2P Brief #10 Active Learning
K2P Brief #16 Teaching with Digital Tools
K2P Brief #14 Assessing Student Performance
Teaching science in a lab or field
Conducting a lab class
Interview with a digital simulation user
Preparing a lab class
Design principles for experiments
Identifying and fostering students' experimental competences
Teaching practical skills with digital simulations
Changing students conceptions about the nature of science
Models and modelling in science
K2P Brief #11 Inquiry Teaching in the Lab
K2P Brief #12 Teaching the Nature of Science
K2P Brief #13 Teaching with Models
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