Programme Tour de Mazur

Programme Tour de Mazur - Twente

This November Harvard Professor of Physics and Applied Physics Eric Mazur will visit the Netherlands. Four Dutch universities will welcome this renowned physicist and educator between November 23rd and November 26th to discuss and share developments and innovations in education, teaching and learning. ‘Tour de Mazur’ is an inspiring event for the academic community in the Netherlands with topics that focus on: Team-Based Learning, Project-Based Teaching, the Converted Classroom and Assessment as a Silent Killer of Learning.

As part of the Tour de Mazur, Eric Mazur will visit 3TU.CEE at Twente University on 25 November and will give a lunch lecture and two workshops. The lunch lecture is open for everyone and streaming of this lecture will be available. The workshops however, will have limited capacity. One workshop is meant for teachers in science, and one workshop is meant for teachers in the engineering cluster. Registration for the workshops is not possible anymore.

Programme

09.30 Welcome and coffee

10.00 – 11.30 Workshop Engineering cluster - FULL

Subject: Team based learning
Output: New ideas for Engineering Projects
Target audience: Advanced teachers in the area of Project Based Learning

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch lecture “Assessment, the silent killer of learning”
Streaming available via www.ustream.tv/channel/universityoftwente

14.00 - 14.30 Coffee break

14.30 - 16.00 Workshop Science cluster - FULL

Subjects: Team based learning & assessment and feedback within science education
Output: New ideas and practices
Target audience: Teachers with little experience in team based learning education

16.00 – 17.00 Drinks