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Student Engagement Through Community Building

Making the Case for a Team-Based Approach to Learning Physics

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The Impact of the 4th Industrial Revolution on Engineering Education (ICL 2019)

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This paper provides an overview of a team-based approach to learning physics in a second-level course for non-majors entitled Light, Sound, Action (LSA) taught at XX University. Designed using a workshop format, LSA provides students numerous opportunities to learn physics using a number of interactive engagement strategies. These interactive engagement strategies provide the backbone for the structure of the course. Using a carefully crafted set of collaborative activities, students in LSA engage in a wide range of experiences in a team setting. Within these collaborative activities are strategies aimed at enhancing communication and building community within the classroom. Perceptions about the team-based collaborative activities in LSA will be presented based on the responses to a short survey sent to students who have taken the course in the past three years. One emergent theme based on these results is that the community-building, team-based activities used in LSA can serve to transcend the classroom experience and carry over into other domains.

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  1. Department of Physics, American University, Washington, DC, USA

    Teresa L. Larkin

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  1. Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Villach, Austria

    Michael E. Auer

  2. Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    Hanno Hortsch

  3. King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand

    Panarit Sethakul

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Larkin, T.L. (2020). Student Engagement Through Community Building. In: Auer, M., Hortsch, H., Sethakul, P. (eds) The Impact of the 4th Industrial Revolution on Engineering Education. ICL 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1134. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40274-7_50

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