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most citedUnderstanding Student Computational Thinking with Computational Modeling

16 citations · 27 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.ed-ph2016★ 6 cited

Exploring University Students' Engagement with Online Video Lectures in a Blended Introductory Mechanics Course

Shih-Yin Lin, John M. Aiken, Daniel T. Seaton +4

The advent of MOOCs has stimulated interest in using online videos to deliver content in university courses. We examined student engagement with 78 online videos that we created an…

physics.ed-ph2014★ 4 cited

Peer Evaluation of Video Lab Reports in an Introductory Physics MOOC

Shih-Yin Lin, Scott S. Douglas, John M. Aiken +5

Assessing student performance becomes challenging when course enrollment becomes very large (~10^4 students). As part of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in introductory physics…

physics.ed-ph2014

Peer Evaluation of Video Lab Reports in a Blended Introductory Physics Course

Scott S. Douglas, Shih-Yin Lin, John M. Aiken +4

The Georgia Tech blended introductory calculus-based mechanics course emphasizes scientific communication as one of its learning goals, and to that end, we gave our students a seri…

physics.ed-ph2014

Student Use of a Single Lecture Video in a Flipped Introductory Mechanics Course

John M. Aiken, Shih-Yin Lin, Scott S. Douglas +4

In the Fall of 2013, Georgia Tech offered a 'flipped' calculus-based introductory mechanics class as an alternative to the traditional large-enrollment lecture class. This class fl…

physics.ed-ph2013

The Initial State of Students Taking an Introductory Physics MOOC

John M. Aiken, Shih-Yin Lin, Scott S. Douglas +4

As part of a larger research project into massively open online courses (MOOCs), we have investigated student background, as well as student participation in a physics MOOC with a…

physics.ed-ph2012★ 16 cited

Understanding Student Computational Thinking with Computational Modeling

John M. Aiken, Marcos D. Caballero, Scott S. Douglas +4

Recently, the National Research Council's framework for next generation science standards highlighted "computational thinking" as one of its "fundamental practices". 9th Grade stud…