New teaching methods in use at UC Irvine's optical engineering and instrument design programs

摘要

New teaching methods reach geographically dispersed students with advances in Distance Education. Capabilitiesinclude a new "Hybrid" teaching method with an instructor in a classroom and a live WebEx simulcast for remotestudents. Our Distance Education Geometric and Physical Optics courses include Hands-On Optics experiments. Lowcost laboratory kits have been developed and YouTube type video recordings of the instructor using these tools guide thestudents through their labs. A weekly "Office Hour" has been developed using WebEx and a Live Webcam the instructoruses to display his live writings from his notebook for answering students' questions.© (2012) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.