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Improving How Universities Teach Science

Lessons from the Science Education Initiative

Carl Wieman

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$39.00 • £33.95 • €35.95

ISBN 9780674972070

Publication Date: 05/22/2017

288 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

6 charts, 10 tables

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Carl Wieman is Professor of Physics and of Education at Stanford University. He was the founding chair of the National Academy of Sciences’ Board on Science Education from 2004 to 2009, and in 2001 won the Nobel Prize in Physics. He was named U.S. University Professor of the Year in 2004 by the Carnegie Foundation.

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On KQED’s Forum, listen to Carl Wieman outline the shortcomings of the college lecture and the benefits of “active-learning”
Read more about the best methods for teaching science and how Wieman arrived at them at Inside Higher Ed
Visit web pages for the Science Education Initiative at the University of Colorado and the University of British Columbia

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