
contributor
Honorary Member
Founding member and essential contributor
Nathaniel Lasry
Former SALTISE Co-Director
John Abbott College, Montreal
Faculty
Education and background
Expertise
Papers
Awards
Presentations
Education and background
Post Doctorate, Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Camebridge, MA
Ph.D., Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, QC
M.Sc., Physics, UQAM, Montreal, QC
Expertise
- Peer instruction (clickers)
- Problem-based Learning (PBL)
- Case-based Instruction
- Flipped Classroom
- Orchestration
- Concept Mapping
- Immediate Feedback
- Group Problem Solving
Projects:
Nathaniel’s projects include research and outreach for Physics Education Research (PER). He has written a digital learning resource on Problem Based Learning for College Physics in French and English that is used by thousands of instructors on six continents. Nathaniel is also the director of CIPhER, the Canadian Institute for Physics Education Research.
- DALITE
DALITE is a tool designed in collaboration with the CIPhER research team. It is a web-based learning platform that provides students with an asynchronous version of peer instruction. - PAREA Grant (2014-17)
Grant investigating the pedagogical ecosystems created by innovative learning spaces and the outcomes of the student engagement. (PAREA – Programme d’aide à la recherche sur l’enseignement et l’apprentissage program of the Quebec Ministry of Education) - Disruptive Innovations
Disruptive innovations, a multi-institutional, inter-provincial, team of researchers, practitioners and corporate partners to investigate and promote the use of evidence-based pedagogies and how best to leverage the affordances of educational technologies to support collaborative learning in the SSHRC-CCSIF funding project: Leveraging new paradigms and disruptive technologies to successfully orchestrate pedagogical change. (SSHRC – Social Science & Humanities Research Council)
Papers
Active learning classroom use in college level Physics: The impact of technology design and adaptive orchestration
SALTISE: Bringing pedagogical innovations into the Physics classroom
Awards
SALTISE Lifetime Lifetime Achievement Award
2022 SALTISE Conference
Presentations