“This is a trend we’re seeing in our discipline,” Wells says. These changes will promote active learning, collaborative problem solving, and faculty-student interaction, he says. The curricular redesign, says Wells, will replace the typical large-lecture format with smaller classes, utilizing five new studio-style physics learning laboratories to be added to the Gant Science Complex in 2019. “It’s the basis for what we’re going to spread across most of our introductory courses.” “We’re rebuilding our classes from the ground up,” he says. Gant Science Complex, according to Barrett Wells, professor and head of the Department of Physics. It’s a scene that’s about to become common in UConn physics courses, thanks to renovations to the Edward V. Now, the instructors move from group to group, stopping to answer questions, as students shuttle back and forth to the whiteboards that line the classroom walls. At the start of class, the instructors provided a short lecture before the students set off on their own problem-solving tutorials. To start, the class of 30 students sits at several triangular workspaces, which today are covered with wires, coils, magnets, and power supplies that the students are using to demonstrate electromagnetic induction. Solutions during her group’s problem-solving tutorial. Anna Regan ’21 (CLAS) utilizes a whiteboard to try out
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