Designed as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), these programmes aim to strengthen conceptual understanding and ensure wider ...

Through CU Boulder’s Physics through Evidence, Empowerment through Reasoning (PEER) Physics project, Professor Valerie Otero and her team are working with teachers to provide resources to support ...

Physicists and educationalists have many theories about why so few girls study physics. Valerie Jamieson goes back to school and asks female pupils what they really think. Vanessa Bennett, Callie ...

NCERT has launched free Physics courses for Class 12 students under the SWAYAM initiative. Designed as Massive Open Online ...

Reyna Pratt spends her days preparing high school students in Virginia for an increasingly competitive world. They learn biology, algebra, English composition, world history, and world cultures. “I ...

The first semester of an undergraduate physics course invariably spends a lot of time on two big ideas: The momentum principle and the work energy principle. Both deal with forces acting on an object, ...

As enrollment numbers for the introductory chemistry and physics courses reach around 600 students each this semester, the ...

It’s common for science teachers to try to craft classroom lessons out of things that students see every day and can easily understand. I remember a lot of the science teachers I had during my school ...

The Great Smoky Mountains are wonders of nature. Thanks to my kids, I get to experience them at times. My daughter used to have volleyball tournaments in Sevierville, Tennessee, and this weekend, the ...

Five years after the creation of a multi-institution graduate school for physics PhD students, Peter McDonald and James West outline the lessons learned Diligent learning: Mark Patton from Oxford ...