Eric Mazur on new interactive teaching techniques | Harvard Magazine Mar-Apr 2012 - 3 views
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Barbara Wrightson on 23 Feb 13In 1990, after seven years of teaching at Harvard, Eric Mazur, now Balkanski professor of physics and applied physics, was delivering clear, polished lectures and demonstrations and getting high student evaluations for his introductory Physics 11 course, populated mainly by premed and engineering students who were successfully solving complicated problems. Then he discovered that his success as a teacher "was a complete illusion, a house of cards."