Several years ago, I reported a survey of pretest and posttest data for 62 introductory physics courses attended by a total of 6542 students. The present article provides a summary of that survey and offers 14 lessons from the physics education reform effort that may assist in the general upgrading of education and science literacy.

Community has historically provided an essential psycho-spiritual framework for nursing. Changes in communication technology pose challenges for nurses internationally who create communities across borders. This article discusses The Bamboo Bridge online community, a project responding to the global call for nursing education about the complementarity of nursing and healing traditions. The proj...

This paper presents literature search outcomes concerning computer-assisted teaching and learning of physics and its efficiency, informs about translation and customization of PhET physics applets and introduces new database of links related to physics and physics education which should serve mainly to physics teachers.

Carl Wieman, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics in 2001 and the Carnegie Foundation’s US University Professor of the Year in 2004, currently directs the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative at the University of British Columbia and the Science Education Initiative at the University of Colorado. Prior to joining UBC, he served on the faculty at CU from 1984 to 2006 as a distinguished pr...

This is the initial report of a long term research program on the design of integrated computer software systems for physics education specifically, and math-science education generally. The program is grounded in a theory of instruction which is centrally concerned with the construction, validation and use of scientific models for objects and processes in the real world. It aims to develop a d...

Formation of the skills conducting an experiment and analyzing its results during laboratory work in natural science has always been important didactic problem, which significantly increased conditions distance mixed learning. The study approaches to effective use software for analysis video recordings observations real physical processes phenomena is one tasks instrumental digital didactics. a...