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Light People: Professor Che Ting Chan, curiosity drives to create the impossibilities
“When something is said to be impossible, there are two points for researchers to initially clarify: whether it really is forbidden by the laws of...
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Cybersecurity Training: Improving Platforms Through Usability Studies
The combination of technological advancements and gaps in cyber awareness is behind the increasing problem of cyber-attacks. Cyber-attacks are no...
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Network Challenges for Cyber-Physical Systems in Training Programmes
Joint educational programmes offer opportunities to integrate partner universities in the fields of research, development and education in order to...
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The Newborn European Astrobiology Institute, a Big Opportunity for Outreach and Education
The European Astrobiology Institute (EAI) is a consortium of European research and higher education institutions and organisations as well as other...
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Designing of Innovative Components of Modernization of the Branch System of Education, Based on a Model-Oriented Approach and Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Their Implementation, When Training of the Personnel, in the Area of Maintenance of Air Transport
The innovative components, that implement the methodology of the model-oriented approach in the branch system of education, primarily relate to the...
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Impact of New Criteria for Accreditation of Physics Degrees in the UK and Ireland: Implications for Staff Development and Support
The Institute of Physics (IOP) has recently changed the criteria by which physics degrees in the UK and Ireland are accredited. The changes represent...
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“Interesting and useful, extreme and ultimate”: an interview with Prof. Huigao Duan
He is an explorer in micro-nano manufacturing, an adventurer in interdisciplinary studies, an impassioned educator; an ever-curious reader, a lover...
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The Science of Outreach
Methodologies used in Formal Education are not an exact science, but are based upon the results of decades of research in the field of psychology....
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The Arcetri School of Physics
The years between the first and the second World War (broadly from 1920 to 1940) are remarkable in Italy for the achievements attained in physical...
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Supporting Educational Transitions in Physics
Educational transitions present opportunities and challenges for students and teachers. Between the ages of 10 and 16 years old, students undertake...
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Visible Spectrum
Gender also intersected with ethnicity and race, thus leaving many inhabitants of our planet disadvantaged in multiple ways. This chapter focuses on...
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Blending Traditional and Modern Approaches to Teaching Control Theory
Control Theory serves as a fundamental background for a number of popular paradigms, including the cyber-physical one. The contents have been...
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Spooky action at a distance? A two-phase study into learners’ views of quantum entanglement
Quantum entanglement is a challenging concept within the field of physics education, often eluding a full grasp by both educators and learners alike....
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Implementing Research-Based Intervention Modules for Teachers of Quantum Mechanics
The introduction of quantum mechanics in school curriculum is now a need, but teachers are not prepared for this task. Lack of basic concepts is...
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Insensitive: Simulation of the NMR Experiment for Didactic Purposes
Since its first publication in 2011, the program “Insensitive” has progressed to be one of the most feature-rich, educational simulation tools for...
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Light People: Professor Thomas G. Brown
What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when it comes to the University of Rochester? It is the first optical education program in the USA,...
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Enhancing the Teaching and Learning of Physics at Lower Second Level in Ireland
The numbers of students studying physics at upper second level and the low numbers of teachers qualified to teach physics at second level are a...
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The Impact of a Two-Year In-service Teacher Training Programme on the Use of the Laboratory and Self-Efficacy Beliefs
In 2018 we started COLLABORA, an in-service teacher training programme based on the learning community approach, aimed at improving the use of the...
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From Phenomenology to Interpretation: How to Face Superconductivity in High School
In the teaching/learning process of physics, it is of great importance to make students experience the different ways in which physics builds new...