Maximizing Learning Effectiveness in an Online Delivery Format
In addition to the intrinsic learning barriers that come with distance education, calculus-based physics has its own challenges:
- Misconceptions must be confronted and reformed using social negotiations
- Relevant contexts that work for the face-to-face class can be inappropriate for non-traditional students
- Technical details must be mastered, but are often perceived as dull and uninteresting by students
- Synchronous communications impose practical constraints on what can be covered