Academic CentreProject supported by the Baltic-German University Liaison Office
"Experiments in physics teaching and learning" (2021)
Project participants:
- Institute for Mathematics and Physics Education, Physics Education Group (PEG), Leibniz University Hannover
- Physics Division, School of Science, Tallinn University of Technology
- Department of Physics Education, Faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Optometry, Department of Physics, University of Latvia
Aim of the project: to contribute cooperation between the above-mentioned universities in physics education research with a special focus on the development and implementation of new approaches to physics experiments and laboratory work in bachelor’s study programmes.
Within the framework of the project:
- Collaboration between participating universities in physics education research was launched, focusing on the development of new approaches to bachelor’s study programmes’ laboratory work.
- Knowledge was exchanged on teaching solutions to allow laboratory work during pandemics when contact activities are not allowed.
- Latvian and Estonian participants were presented with the results of research carried out at Leibniz University Hannover on the implementation of different methods in a practical physics course: development and testing of suitable experiments; training of lecturers for a practical physics course; teaching a modern physics seminar in a tandem learning method; transforming physics lectures into a flipped classroom method.
- Latvian and German participants were introduced to the results of Tallinn University of Technology's "RemoteLab" and "VirtualLab" projects: experiments that can be controlled and managed remotely over the web, as well as experiments that can be performed virtually using computer code that simulates experiments and measurement processes as realistically as possible.
- The Estonian and German participants were presented with the results of research carried out at the University of Latvia on physics education: a video demonstration set on the topic of "Electricity" containing open questions for students, as well as a study on the knowledge and skills of bachelor’s study programmes’ students in physics course laboratory work.