I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material. Who was to blame? The students? The material? I will explain how I came to the agonizing conclusion that the culprit was neither of these. It was my teaching that caused students to fail! I will show how I have adjusted my approach to teaching and how it has improved my students' performance significantly.

This event is open to all faculty, graduate students, and postdocs. Please register in advance at http://www.crlt.umich.edu/node/58500.

Eric Mazur is the Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University. In 1990, he began developing Peer Instruction, an active learning method, and he is the author of Peer Instruction: A User's Manual (Prentice Hall, 1997), a book that explains how to teach large lecture classes interactively.

Co-sponsored by CRLT, College of Engineering, Learning Analytics Task Force, LSA Dean's Office, Office of the Vice President for Research, Departments of Physics, Astronomy, Biophysics, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Mathematics,and Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology.