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In this paper, we introduce a teaching module used in an oral communications course at MIT to teach students how to (1) present technical material to a non-technical audience and (2) recover from things that may go wrong during a presentation. This module consists of various classroom activities that are all centered around an assignment in which students prepare a talk in order to explain a technical...
We describe the design of several new forms of interactive 3D visualizations, to be used in teaching the concept of plot in fiction. Conventional approaches to teaching plot tend to rely on a Victorian visualization known as Freytag's Pyramid, which is well suited to a certain range of material but is not appropriate for all fiction currently being taught. Our new visualizations have the potential...
A report is given of the development of a computer-aided-instruction (CAI) system for laboratory practical exercises for students of a first course in physiology. Muscle contraction recording from relatively small experimental animals, such as frogs and rats, is a problem when one tries to introduce CAI into laboratory experiments. An appropriate converter is needed for small mechanical movement registration...
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