eTextBook: Bringing the Text into the Electronic Age
 
Undergraduate Science Education Reform
 
 Traditional lecture-lab-textbook approach to science education is not most effective way to teach science to a general audience. Educational research has shown that deeper understanding is fostered by a learning environment that is:
  • active
  • hands-on
  • participatory
  • inquiry based 
 
Earth science educators have developed a variety of teaching strategies:
 
  • Just-in-Time Teaching
  • slide observation
  • quantitative problem-solving
  • interactive computer applications
  • group learning
  • simulations
  • computer and Web technologies
 
 
 
 
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