Physics Education Research (PER) Division provides a forum for the research on pedagogical techniques and strategies that will help students learn physics more effectively and help instructors to implement these techniques. This also includes the best scientific practices like active learning which will provide every student in a class an equal opportunity to learn. For more information on PER, you may also visit this site : https://www.aapt.org/aboutaapt/history/AAPT-History-PER.cfm

We invite you and your colleagues to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations, and eagerly anticipate your participation at the conference.

Integration of interactive multimedia to physics courses for making physics-learning fun and engaging

Multimedia communication refers to more than one medium of communication. For example, if we consider a textbook, it has some text at a minimum. It may also have pictures, graphs, tables of data, and so on. In the modern era of digital technology, its span has widened to audio and video

recordings and even interactive animations. We have been using interactive multimedia for teaching physics concepts in college physics courses. I will briefly present on our activities to integrate interactive multimedia in physics, astrophysics, and pedagogy courses, and summarize student perceptions of such interactive multimedia in learning physics concepts.