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1. Vescuso, Peter, "Using STELLA to Create Learning Laboratories: An Example from Physics"

Type:
Document
Date Created:
1985
Collection:
System Dynamic Society Records
Collecting Area:
University Archives
Collection ID:
ua435
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Description:
STELLA is a new software program that has been designed to bring system dynamics to broad-based audiences. A series of books is being developed to disseminate STELLA and system dynamics into one of these broad-based groups -- the college educational market. The books center on a "learning laboratory" approach to learning. This approach uses STELLA as the basis for an experiential, learner-controlled learning process. One of these books, "Learning Laboratories In: Physics," is described in this paper. The book contains three sections: mechanics, thermodynamics and electromagnetism. Within each section are five to six lab sessions. The lab sessions progress from simple structural models of fundamental concepts to more complex models that integrate the work from the previous labs. A sample session on Newton's laws is presented to illustrate the approach.