{"id":424455,"date":"2017-06-22T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=886b38ecd405b11926a13fcc5cbe80e2"},"modified":"2017-06-22T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T23:00:00","slug":"p-3-a-practice-focused-learning-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=424455","title":{"rendered":"P 3 : a practice focused learning environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been an increased focus on the integration of practices into physics curricula, with a<br \/>\nparticular emphasis on integrating computation into the undergraduate curriculum of scientists and<br \/>\nengineers. In this paper, we present a university-level, introductory physics course for science and<br \/>\nengineering majors at Michigan State University called P 3 (projects and practices in physics) that<br \/>\nis centred around providing introductory physics students with the opportunity to appropriate<br \/>\nvarious science and engineering practices. The P 3 design integrates computation with analytical<br \/>\nproblem solving and is built upon a curriculum foundation of problem-based learning, the principles<br \/>\nof constructive alignment and the theoretical framework of community of practice. The design<br \/>\nincludes an innovative approach to computational physics instruction, instructional scaffolds, and a<br \/>\nunique approach to assessment that enables instructors to guide students in the development&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been an increased focus on the integration of practices into physics curricula, with a<br \/>\nparticular emphasis on integrating computation into the undergraduate curriculum of scientists and<br \/>\nengineers. In this paper, we present a university-leve&#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-424455","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\/424455","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=424455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}