Teaching for transfer

dc.creatorMahajan, Sanjoy
dc.date2007-04-16
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:56:39Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T07:56:39Z
dc.descriptionStudents, after they leave our care, are called to solve the diverse problems of the world, so we should teach to increase transfer: the ability to apply fundamental principles to new problems and contexts. This ability is rare. The following pages are from a workshop for faculty on designing courses that promote transfer. I discuss two design principles: to name the transferable ideas and to illustrate them with examples from diverse subjects. The discussion uses dimensional reasoning as the example of a valuable transferable idea, illustrating it with three diverse examples.
dc.description3 pages, 3 figures, ConTeXt, GPL free-software license; from a workshop on curriculum integration at MIT (2006-09-25)
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0704.1854
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0704.1854
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/127388
dc.subjectPhysics Education
dc.titleTeaching for transfer
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