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麻省理工學院教授陳敏Prof. Min Chen, MIT

Lecture at Tunghai University

May 22 , 2015

Tunghai-MIT-Teaching Model東海 -MIT- 教學模式

TMM

大學教育的理想• 學問 :上学是要学如何提问，此谓之“學问”

• 大學是通過深入的討論提高學生的智慧和邏輯，以開發知識。學課程不僅要傳授知識 （傳道 ) ，還要指導學生應用知識 , 解決未知（受業 ) 和他們的困惑 ( 解惑）

• “ 四書” : 大學、中庸 （傳道 )– 論語、孟子 ( 受業 , 解惑）

• 3 種智能 : 演繹– 歸納– 情商

大學教育的理想• 傳道、授業、解惑 • 教育執行和領導能力 , 做更好的業務 • 精神生活教育 : 如何前進，領導自己的

生命 , 勇於變革 • 毒油，米，水 : 我會做什麼，如果我是

一個年輕需要餵養家庭的員工 ?• 用科學的方法，分析你做事的方式 : 

– 強忍內心的騷動去餵養家庭 ?– 犧牲自己的情感去追求成功和金錢 ?

Students

• Instead of sitting passively in class, listening to lessons or waiting to be questioned,

• There will be a more collaborative approach, with students

• actively studying by themselves,• taking part in discussions, working in

smaller groups to solve problems while improving their understanding and communication skills.

Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) 

• Online course aimed at unlimited free participation and open access via the web

• One can study any where at any time• Make the changes in education that are

necessary for industry and modern society.• A different kind of education to prepare

people for working life.“Young people use quite advanced computers.”

edX is better than MIT OCW 

• Higher resolution• Team developed• The HW and exams in edX are renewed each

year while they remain the same for OCW• edX has on-line alive discussion, HW and

exams• edX contains a lot more courses from other 1st

rate universities

Education for the 21 century

• In addition to Subject-specific lessons – physics, math, history, language, geography etc.

• “Phenomenon” teaching – teaching by cross-subject topics such as – Graphene– Nano devices– European Union– Method of discovery and invention

Subject-specific lessons – physics, math, history, language,

geography etc.• Lewin typically spent 40 to 50 hours

preparing for each lecture, rehearsing the 50-minute production two or three times—the last on the morning of class. His lecture notes, which are preserved and proudly displayed in a series of binders on his office shelves, reveal an intense drive for both precision and drama.

Subject specific 8.01x, 8.02x, 8.03x

• 94 course lectures in High Resolution (8.01x, 8.02x and 8.03) all in High Resolution

• 13 miscellaneous lectures• 10 hr Help Sessions 8.01 (85 problems)10

hr Help Sessions 8.02 (58 problems)• https

://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiEHVhv0SBMpP75JbzJShqw/playlists

Lewin’s 8 talks on NHK TV in Japan + 8.01x and 8.02x lectures

• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiEHVhv0SBMpP75JbzJShqw click on "Playlists".

• Lectures are being viewed more than 11,000 times daily or 4 million per year.

• "For the Love of Physics" has been viewed 1.6 million times to this day.

• Most downloaded list: MIT-Levine, 哈佛Michael San-del 「正義：一場思辨之旅」 , UCB- Hubert Dreyfus (Philosophy), Stanford-Leonard Susskind (QM), Yale-Astrophysics with Charles Bailyn, Modern Poetry with Langdon Hammer and Introduction to the Old Testament with Christine Hayes.

• Compared Richard Feynman, iconic brilliant scientist, larger than life and totally accessible.

• “Through your inspiring video lectures i have managed to see just how BEAUTIFUL Physics is, both astounding and simple,” a 17-year-old from India e-mailed recently.

• Steve Boigon, 62, a florist from San Diego, wrote, “I walk with a new spring in my step and I look at life through physics-colored eyes.”

• In his lectures at ocw.mit.edu, Professor Lewin beats a student with cat fur to demonstrate electrostatics.

• He rides a fire-extinguisher-propelled tricycle across his classroom to show how a rocket lifts off.

• 這種超級名師。他們將在全球享有– NOT 好萊塢明星般的知名度。– But 新聞主播的知名度。

• “You are now my Scientific Father. In spite of the bad occupation and war against my lovely IRAQ, you made me love USA because you are there and MIT is there.”

• Professor Lewin revels in his fan mail and in the idea that he is spreading the love of physics. “Teaching is my life,” he said.

• Teaching required courses made him realize “that what really counts is to make them love science.”

• He said he spent 25 hours preparing each new lecture, choreographing every detail and stripping out every extra sentence.

• “Clarity is the word,” he said.• Fun also matters. In another 

lecture on pendulums, he stands back against the wall, holding a steel ball at the end of a pendulum just beneath his chin. He has just demonstrated how potential energy turns into kinetic energy by sending the ball flying across the stage, shattering a pane of glass he had bolted to the wall.

• Now he will demonstrate the conservation of energy.

• “I am such a strong believer in the conservation of energy that I am willing to risk my life for it,” he says. “If I am wrong, then this will be my last lecture.”

• He closes his eyes, and releases the ball. It flies back and forth, stopping just short of his chin.

• “Physics works!” Professor Lewin shouts. “And I’m still alive!”

• Chasing rainbows hooked Mr. Boigon, the San Diego florist. He was vacationing in Hawaii when he noticed the rainbow outside his hotel every afternoon. Why were the colors always in the same order?

• When he returned home, Mr. Boigon said in a telephone interview, he Googled rainbows. Within moments, he was whisked to M.I.T. Lecture Hall No. 26-100. Professor Lewin was in front of a few hundred students.

• “All of you have looked at rainbows,” he begins. “But very few of you have ever seen one. Seeing is different than looking. Today we are going to see a rainbow.”

• For 50 minutes, he bounds across the stage, writing equations on the blackboard and rhapsodizing about the “amazing” and “beautiful” physics of rainbows. He explains how the colors always appear in the same order because of how light refracts and reflects in the water droplets.

• For the finale, he creates a rainbow by shining a bright light into a glass sphere containing a single drop of water.

• “There it is!” Professor Lewin cries.• “Your life will never be the same,” he tells

his students. “Because of your knowledge, you will be able to see way more than just the beauty of the bows that everyone else can see.”

• “Professor Lewin was correct,” Mr. Boigon wrote in an e-mail message to a reporter. “He made me SEE ... and it has changed my life for the better!!”

• “I had never taken a course in physics, or calculus, or differential equations,” he wrote to Professor Lewin. “Now I have done all that in order to be able to follow your lectures. I knew the name Isaac Newton, but nothing about Newtonian Mechanics. I had heard of the likes of Einstein, Galileo.” But, he added that he “didn’t have a clue on earth as to what they were all about.”

• “I walk down the street analyzing the force of a boy on skateboard or the recoil of a carpenter using a nail gun,” he wrote. “Thank you with all my heart.”

“Phenomenon”• Fit for the 21st century.”• For education to promote character,

resilience and communication skills, rather than just pushing students through “exam factories”.

• With input from more than one subject specialist.

“Phenomenon” Courses

edX463 courses

MITx11.127xDesign and Development of Games for LearningStarts: April 1, 2015

MITx15.662xThe American Dream for the Next GenerationStarts: March 23, 2015

Nano Electronics + controlled Photonics

ChalmersXChM001xIntroduction to Graphene Science and TechnologyStarts: March 23, 2015

PurdueXnano520xFundamentals of NanoelectronicsStarts: March 26, 2015

石墨烯 Graphene,碳納米管

• 石墨烯是二維的，單原子厚的材料• Carbon nanotubes, 碳納米管• 建築物的石墨塊，• 比鋼強 200 倍• 導電性比銅更好 1000 倍

MITx3.15xElectrical, Optical, Magnetic Materials and DevicesStarting SoonStarts: April 8, 2015

TsinghuaX40050455xWater and Wastewater Treatment Engineering

PekingX04831750.2xFundamental Algorithms | 算法基础Starts: April 26, 2015

Introduction to Cloud Computing IEEEx – June 3, 2015

Learn More

Introduction to Aeronautical EngineeringDiscover the fascinating world of aviation by investigating aeronautics, aerodynamics and flight mechanics. Starts June 2, 2015 - Anytime, Self-Paced

My best female MIT student learned to fly at ten, bought and fixed an airplane at sixteen after three of the same model planes had crashed due to weak constructions.

Legitimacy of on-line degreesanti-cheating technology

• Uses webcams to scan students’ face and knuckles to verify identities before tests

• Monitor computer and record video• Prevents opening apps or web browsers

during online exams• Proctors students remotely over webcams• Scans exam papers for copied passages• Changes positions or lighting can flag false

violation!

Goals of TMM

• “Subject and phenomenon-based teaching” • Playful solutions to students’ learning,” • Philosophy: “We want students to learn in

active, happy, relaxed and inspired atmosphere.”

• “Joyful learning”. More collaboration and communication between students to develop creative thinking skills.

How Do You Say Global Competition?

• Global competition is real • Languages are increasingly important• Everyone must learn English and Chinese• + one additional foreign language: • Most useful ones are Arabic, German, and Indian.• English is the business language of the world, but

only minimal information is translated • With English, you get a partial picture

Collaboration between THU Physics and MIT Physics  

• edX is mature and reliable for MOOCs

• Each course developed by a team of specialists

• Completed with lectures, new HW and exams

• Weak points of edX and MOOC:• Lack of in-person discussions,• Credits are not recognized

TMM at Tunghai

• Collaboration confirmed 4/2013• First trial: summer course on

MIT Mechanics Review• 8.01x Mechanics in fall• 8.02x E&M in springs• Two full-tuition scholarships• 70% entrance level, ~10%

reach MIT level

科技及社會人文趨勢 :TMM: Tunghai-MIT Teaching

Model 教育的理想• 傳道、授業、解惑 • 教育執行和領導能力 , 做更好的業務 • 精神生活教育 : 如何前進，領導自己的生命 , 勇於變

革 • 華爾街付學者 / 政客去捍衛華爾街(Today’s NY Times)

• 毒油，米，水 : 如果我是一個年輕需要餵養家庭的員工 , 我會做什麼 ?

• 用科學的方法，分析你做事的方式 : – 強忍內心的騷動去餵養家庭 ?– 犧牲自己的情感去追求成功和金錢 ?

TMM: Tunghai-MIT-Teaching Model • Select edX courses to study 傳

道• Tunghai adds Chinese subtitles 傳

道• Teachers/Students study by themselves 傳

道• Students develop ability to question 授

業• Intense in-class discussions sessions   解惑• On-line homework   授

業• In class exams timed together with the start

of edX on-line exams 授業

• Lab ,  report/paper-writing 授業

• Students get both Tunghai and edX credits

TMM model three components 傳道 ,  授業 ,  解惑

•  Prof. Walter Lewin’s  open courses: well documented;

• Tunghai added  subtitles  and additional explanations in Chinese. 

• To  practice  knowledge:  we  follow  up lectures  with  timed  and  proctored exercises, quizzes, experiments, exams and oral exams to ensure students learn how to apply the knowledge acquired. 

• To solve the unknown or puzzles related to these courses. 

• In  this  model,  Tunghai  uses  MIT  MOOCs  for  THU  SPOCs  with  flipped  classroom  and  proctored exams, and successful 

students will earn both THU’s credits and a completion 

certificate from Lewin plus a Tunghai scholarship.    

玉山銀行黃董事長獎學金每年 NT600,000

Starting next semester

• 3 門新 edX 課程或

• 30 個獲得 EDX 大學學分的學生

My second proposal with NT600k/year from

• Any Tunghai student(s) from any department could propose to a Tunghai Prof. to supervise taking an edX courses together.

• Prof. gets a teaching credit (~1/4 of a normal course)

• Student(s) get – edX Associated University academic credits and

certificate– Scholarship

Pending problems and solutions

• 「 2016 大限」 : 台灣大學新生數目遽降數萬人

• Each Department of Tunghai should use TMM to distinguish itself from other universities to attract new students

• 東海 -MIT- 教學模式

End of TMM

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