The purpose of this project is to develop an interactive multimedia learning package which will enable new students to clarify their own electricity concepts and compare them with those needed to study electrical engineering, science and its teaching successfully. Because they are not intuitive and because students have strongly held concepts of their own for electrical phenomena those concepts are often poorly understood. Strategies for change leading to deep understanding (to replace algorithmic learning) have been developed which are suitable for multimedia delivery. Students will be able to use them prior to or concurrently with their studies.
Host institution: University of Technology, Sydney
Leader: Dr Mark Cosgrove
Partner: W G Hooper, S Alexander
Contact Address: Faculty of Education
PO Box 222, LINDFIELD NSW 2070
TEL: (02) 330 5282
FAX: (02) 330 5556
This proposal seeks to take advantage of the recent advances in multimedia technology for personal computers to demonstrate/illustrate some of the difficult conceptual concepts encountered by Science and Engineering students in thermodynamics.
Host institution: University of Western Australia
Leader: Dr Robert Donald Trengove
Contact address: Department of Chemistry
Stirling Highway, NEDLANDS WA 6009
TEL: (09) 380 3163
FAX: (09) 380 1005
E-mail: trengove@uniuse.uwa.edu.au
The teaching and practice of physics at all levels is changing because of the wide availability of personal computers. A successful scheme (MUPPET) already exists to teach students to use these new tools. This project aims to extend that scheme so that it can be used by more courses, departments and universities.
Host institution: University of Sydney
Leader: Dr Ian Desmond Johnston
Partner: R C McPhedran, P J Walker, E F Redish
Conntact address: School of Physics
SYDNEY NSW 2006
TEL: (02) 692 2637
FAX: (02) 660 2903
E-Mail: idj@physics.su.oz.au
The aim of the project is to develop a series of twenty-six, six minute video introductions to experiments commonly found in foundation physics laboratories. The videos produced may, in the future, be used in distance learning through video conferencing, adapted to computer tutorials and onto CD-ROMs for computer aided learning modules.
Host institution: University of Wollongong
Leader: Dr Roger Adrian Lewis
Contact address: Department of Physics
Northfields Avenue, WOLLONGONG NSW 2522
TEL: (042) 21 3518
FAX: (042) 21 3151
E-Mail: r.lewis@uow.edu.au
Current methods of teaching physics are inadequate to teach large classes of widely varying abilities. To address this a comprehensive computer-based multimedia physics instructional program suitable for incorporation into all existing first year physics units is being designed. The combination of coloured high resolution images, animation, full motion video and compact disc quality audio with an interactive user friendly computer program, results in a highly stimulating learning environment under the full control of the student.
Host institution: Curtin University of Technology
Leader: Dr Marjan George Zadnik
Partners: R Loss, D Sands, D F Treagust
Contact address: School of Physical Sciences
GPO Box U 1987, PERTH WA 6001
TEL: (09) 351 2326
FAX: (09) 351 2377
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