{"id":288463,"date":"2016-10-03T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=df49f0f616c0e1ff73cfc163d99e6393"},"modified":"2016-10-03T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T23:00:00","slug":"learning-through-experimenting-an-original-way-of-teaching-geometrical-optics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=288463","title":{"rendered":"Learning through experimenting: an original way of teaching geometrical optics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past 10 years, we have developed at University Paris-Sud a first year course on geometrical<br \/>\noptics centered on experimentation. In contrast with the traditional top-down learning structure<br \/>\nusually applied at university, in which practical sessions are often a mere verification of the laws<br \/>\ntaught during preceding lectures, this course promotes \u2018active learning\u2019 and focuses on experiments<br \/>\nmade by the students. Interaction among students and self questioning is strongly encouraged and<br \/>\npracticing comes first, before any theoretical knowledge. Through a series of concrete examples, the<br \/>\npresent paper describes the philosophy underlying the teaching in this course. We demonstrate that<br \/>\nnot only geometrical optics can be taught through experiments, but also that it can serve as a<br \/>\nuseful introduction to experimental physics. Feedback over the last 10 years shows that our approach<br \/>\nsucceeds in helping students to learn better and acquire motivation and autonomy. This approach can<br \/>\ne&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past 10 years, we have developed at University Paris-Sud a first year course on geometrical<br \/>\noptics centered on experimentation. In contrast with the traditional top-down learning structure<br \/>\nusually applied at university, in which practical se&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-288463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}