Discussion-based Teaching Design of Polymer Physics Course:Comparing the Structure and Glass Transition of Silkworm Silk and Nylon 6 Fiber
Polymer Physics is a core course for undergraduate majors such as materials science and engineering,and polymer science and engineering.The Polymer Physics teaching team at school of materials science and engineering of Beihang University performed a discussion-based reform.The team set the discussion themes as representative polymers such as natural polymer,high-performance structural polymer based on teachers'research directions,establishing object mapping relations with the contents in the textbook.This essay introduces the overall design of the discussion-based reform.Focusing on the case themed of silkworm silk,it also explains in detail how to guide the thinking and discussion of students.This reform significantly raised the participation of students,and cultivated their high-level ability of analytical and problem solving.The results proved that discussion-based teaching was an effective tool to improve the teaching performance of Polymer Physics.
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