Reimagining the classroom for an engaged learning experience
Cornell discipline based education research
An interdisciplinary field drawing on knowledge and methodologies from social science, psychology, education, and cognitive science research, with the goal of enhancing student learning and instructor teaching.
CDER Video Spotlight
Professors Natasha Holmes and Michelle Smith are featured in this video clip highlighting the ways in which innovation can revolutionize the classroom.
Engaging with a whole set of mentors will allow the CIDER postdocs to approach questions about student learning and experiences across disciplinary boundaries and use techniques from multiple fields.
Coming from the University of Toronto, where he is the director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Loewen begins his five-year appointment as the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Aug. 1.
The PER group, led by former postdoc Emily Smith (now teaching assistant professor at the Colorado School of Mines) and including work by physics graduate students Martin Stein and Cole Walsh, recently published “Direct Measurement of the Impact of Teaching Experimentation in Physics Labs” in the jo...