Mazur Clip 1

Faculty and student up at white board; student writing

Topics Covered

Eliciting participation; Questioning, listening and responding; Sharing expertise; responding to student questions; different forms of participation; leveraging pre-work, support materials; differentiation; lecture

  • InstructorEric Mazur, Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics
  • Student Group: Undergraduate
  • School: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
  • Course: Physics as a Foundation for Science and Engineering
  • Clip Length: 2 minutes, 13 seconds (28:53-31:06)

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Instructional Themes

Eliciting participation; Questioning, listening and responding; Sharing expertise; responding to student questions; different forms of participation; leveraging pre-work, support materials; differentiation; lecture

Instructor

Eric Mazur, Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics

Student Group

Undergraduate

School

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Course

Physics as a Foundation for Science and Engineering

Clip Length

2 minutes, 13 seconds (28:53-31:06)

Clip Context

  • “AP50: Physics as a Foundation for Science and Engineering,” an undergraduate course at Harvard College with 60 students enrolled. 
  • This course is a yearlong, team- and project-based introduction to physics. In the course, Mazur assigns students to small groups and challenges them to solve real-life problems using physics concepts.
  • This clip comes about 30 minutes into the 97-minute class session as Mazur addresses three “pre-class annotations” that students have submitted.