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The Tufts STEM Education Lecture Series highlights innovative STEM education research in an effort to increase collaboration between universities and organizations dedicated to improving the way students learn.This new lecture series is a joint venture between the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) and the Tufts Education Department. 

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Tufts STEM Education Lecture Series: Spring, 2011

Lectures: 4:30 – 5:30 PM in Anderson Hall in Nelson Auditorium
(unless indicated otherwise below)

Monday, February 7th 

Engaging with Quantitative Thinking - Eleanor Duckworth, Professor of Education, Harvard University
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/faculty_research/profiles/profile.shtml?vperson_id=313

Monday, March 7th - watch lecture here

The Scientific Approach to Teaching: Research as a Basis for Course Design- Eric Mazur, Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Harvard University
http://mazur-www.harvard.edu/emdetails.php

Monday, April 4th - watch lecture here

How Immersion in Virtual Worlds Helps Students in the Real World - Chris Dede, Professor in Learning Technologies, Harvard University
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=chris_dede

Wednesday, April 6th- watch lecture here

Algebra, Additive and Multiplicative Structures. Is there any coherence at the early secondary level? - Gérard Vergnaud, Director Emeritus of research at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
http://www.ardm.eu/contenu/g%C3%A9rard-vergnaud-english

 

Monday, May 2nd - to register for this event, please click here.

The Emergence, Reproduction, and Change of Numerical Representations and Ideas: The Study of Small Communities in New Guinea and the United States - Geoff Saxe, Professor in the Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley
http://gse.berkeley.edu/faculty/gsaxe/