PHYSICS TEACHING AND EDUCATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARITY WITH A.V. USOVA REVISITED

The evolution of interdisciplinarity in physics research

Science, being a social enterprise, is subject to fragmentation into groups that focus on specialized areas or topics. Often new advances occur through cross-fertilization of ideas between sub-fields that otherwise have little overlap as they study dissimilar phenomena using different techniques. Thus to explore the nature and dynamics of scientific progress one needs to consider the organizati...

TEACHING PHYSICS Going SPLAT!—Building a multimedia educational resource for physics learners

Physics has an image of being both ‘difficult’ and ‘boring’. This paper describes the development of SPLAT, an enjoyable multimedia educational resource for one of the topics that learners find particularly difficult. The developer was an experienced physics teacher who had no prior experience of using multimedia authoring tools. SPLAT can be used in schools, colleges and homes to increase lear...

Inhibition Revisited in EFL Learning/Teaching

In the affective sphere of EFL learning especially with regard to teaching/learning situations in Iran, one deterrent element seizes particular attention and that is inhibition self-imposed restraint on or abstinence from learning due to academic and non-academic variables such as culture, gender, psyche, extreme emotions, etc. It is related to language ego permeability hypothesis (LEPH) which ...

Teaching and Learning Physics with Smartphones

The use of mobile technologies is reshaping how we teach and learn. In this paper we describe our research on the use of these technologies to teach physics. On the one hand we develop mobile applications to complement the traditional learning and to help students learn anytime and anywhere. The use of this applications has proved to have very positive influence on the students engagement. On t...

Teaching and Learning Physics with Interactive Video