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SOE: Fachverband Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme

SOE 13: Hacky Hour I (joint session AGI/SOE/AKjDPG)

SOE 13.5: Talk

Wednesday, March 20, 2024, 11:45–12:05, MAR 0.011

FAILS (Fancy automated internet lecture system) — •Marten Richter — Institut für Theoretische Physik, Nichtlineare Optik und Quantenelektronik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

In theoretical physics, the conventional lecture with chalk by slowly exploring the physical formulas is still one, if not the best method. However modern expectations of lectures include electronic scripts for students, interactive questions for student engagement, and hybrid audio/video transmission.

FAILS (Fancy Automated Internet Lecture System) is developed to meet this demand. The open source software was developed driven by the author's need to have electronic chalk on multiple projectors, interactive quizzes, chat, and also audio/video transmission in one software for lectures in theoretical physics, here at TU Berlin. All features are highly automated and designed to reduce the distraction of the lecturer. After initially being used in our institute it is now university-wide deployed in our moodle learning management system ISIS with support from innoCampus. This talk gives a short hands-on demonstration of the abilities of the FAILS software (cf. https://github.com/fails-components/compositions and https://www.youtube.com/@fails-components).

Keywords: Electronic chalk; Lecture system; Streaming; Theoretical physics; Teaching