Celebrating Success
Honoring the great work of PEER Physics teachers
I've taught a university course using PEER Physics for two years now. The transition from in-person to remote learning this past semester was enormously challenging, but the online materials developed by the PEER Physics team were very helpful to maintain the class's culture and structure. In my end of semester evaluations, students pointed out how the group collaborative documents helped them organize their thoughts and maintain their small group working relationships. Even though nothing can replace the value of in-person experimentation, the online experiment clips were useful for helping my students move through activities quicker and with more certainty, which was convenient given that most everything else takes longer to do in remote environments. In the end, my students were surprised that this course had the capability to transition to remote learning so effectively, and they compared it very favorably to the other courses they were taking that semester.
Julian Stenzel Martins is a PhD student at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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