Eric Mazur - Getting Every Student Ready for Every Class. EDULEARN18 Keynote Speech

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Over the past decades, there has been a concerted push away from passive lecturing to active engagement in the classroom. A successful implementation of the so-called flipped classroom requires students to come to class prepared, either by reading the textbook or watching a prerecorded video. How do we make sure students effectively engage prior to class? A variety of approaches have been devised to get students to take responsibility for this information transfer, but none manage to get all students to participate, compromising the in-class activities.
In this talk, Eric Mazur presents a new approach to get every student to prepare for every class using a new social learning platform that uses a combination of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation factors to get every student ready for every class in a course. Mazur, widely known for his work on Peer Instruction, an interactive teaching method aimed at engaging students in the classroom, adds the perfect tool to improve this successful methodology. A useful and engaging talk not to be missed!