Since March 2010, we have published a monthly newsletter focusing on various teaching activities taking place in conjunction with the CWSEI STLFs. Every month either an instructor involved in a transformation, or TAs involved with or students taking such transformed courses express their views about what works and what doesn’t, and how things can be further improved. These 1-to-2 pages newsletters are distributed to the entire faculty in order to keep them informed about these various efforts and give them a contact person to talk to if they become interested in any particular aspect.
2012 Newsletters
March 2012 - Active learning in lecture courses
2011 Newsletters
August/September 2011 - New and on-going CWSEI activities in the department
July 2011 - Effectiveness of teaching problem solving strategies
May-June 2011 - Changes in PHYS153: Elements of Physics
April 2011 - Handling student evaluations
March 2011 - Invention as Preparation for Learning study
February 2011 - Math diagnostics development
January 2011 - Changes in PHYS107: Enriched Physics I
2010 Newsletters
November 2010 - Changes in ASTR 311: Exploring the Universe II: Stars and Galaxies
October 2010 - TA training and mentorship program
September 2010 - Summary of new and on-going CWSEI activities
August 2010 - Changes in PHYS101: Energy and Waves
June 2010 - Changes in ASTR310: Exploring the Universe I: The Solar System
May 2010 - Student impressions of transformed lab course
April 2010 - Upper-level Quantum Mechanics and Optics Course transformations
