Reasearch topics
- Groupworks
- Different ways to use groupworks in university teaching?
- How to evaluate groupworks?
- How to select memebers for a group?
- Web-based groupworks
- efficiency? tools?
- How to keep students motivated?
- How to make exercise sessions more attractive?
- Role of visual materials
- E.g. you could test and evaluate suitable visualization tools, maybe
also test in your teaching?
- Learning through games and plays
- Academic honesty (cheating, plagiarism problems)
- Distribution of work between teachers
- Scheduling (see book ``Anna aikaa ajatella'')
- Stress management
- Integration of pieces of knowledge
- use of concept maps?
- other?
- How to teach/learn proof techniques?
- Motivation - how to add/maintain? (both students + teachers)
- Learning process vs. result?
- Different learning types and how to take in account them?
- Evaluation of students?
- other than traditional exam?
- Special education in university
- dyslexia?
- innumerency?
- extra talented students?
- Unofficial learning goals/How to support students' psychological
development?
- Concrete demonstration (analog computers etc.)
- Problem-based learning experiments
You can also generate/modify your own research topic!
Research
The research is very free-formed. The idea is that you try something
new in your teaching or investigate new possibilities, which could be
used. Try to find at least some literature related to your research
topic. However, more important are your own new ideas and discoveries.
Paper
For 2 cu course everybody is asked to participate both seminars and
write a paper about your research topic (minimum 8 pages). Prepare
also a session about your topic for the second seminar. Instead of a
traditional presentation all new experiments are preferred: try
to activate the participants!
If you couldn't participate the first seminar, you can take a light
version of the course. For 1 cu just make some research, write a
shorter paper and participate the second seminar. Your session can also
be shorter. Of course, if you don't care cu's you can just participate
the seminar and have fun!