Their website: http://ccuteal.ccu.edu.tw/front/bin/home.phtml
Contact Person: Lih-Yir Shieh
This classroom seats 117 students at 13 tables.
From The TLT Group: Factors Affecting the Adoption of Faculty Developed Academic Software:
TEAL at National Chung Cheng University: NCCU in Taiwan has adopted TEAL, building a classroom along MIT lines. The classroom has a capacity of 100 students but in TEALâs first two trial runs, 50 students have been in each class. So far, NCCU is the closest thing to a replication of MITâs program but there are, of course, substantial differences. NCCUâs budget for TEAL was spent mainly on physical facilities, so not much remained for buying equipment needed for student experiments. Budgeting for laboratory equipment is a priority. Other differences include the language, the textbook, and the length of the class (1.5 hours instead of 2 hours). Nonetheless NCCU is seeing substantial gains in student learning, up 25% from last year on a test based on the Force Concept Inventory (FCI). The professor, Jaw-Luen Tang, is also seeing increased student participation in conversation (unusual, he reports, for Taiwan where students are ordinarily quiet in class). Here are some pictures (All Taiwan photos were taken by Sheng-Chien Chou and Ming-An Tsai, students of Prof. Jaw-Luen Tang of NCCU.) of the NCCU TEAL classroom in action:
NCCUâs experience is not the same as MITâs, of course, in part because of other contextual differences. NCCU attendance in traditional physics was already high, for example, so NCCU did not experience student resistance to attending class. NCCU is a regional iCampus hub, disseminating the TEAL model to colleges and high schools in Taiwan.