Product Information: For Instructors

We recently hosted an online conference, where instructors who currently use Mastering gave presentations on a number of different topics you might find interesting. You can access these presentations here.

Used by over a million science students, the Mastering platform is the most effective and widely used online tutorial, homework, and assessment system for the sciences.

MasteringAstronomy:

• Engages students
• Fosters active learning
• Emulates the office-hours experience
• Easily captures data to demonstrate assessment outcomes

• MasteringAstronomy tutorials guide students through the toughest topics in astronomy with self-paced tutorials that provide individualized coaching. These assignable, in-depth tutorials are designed to coach students with hints and feedback specific to their individual misconceptions.
• WorldWide Telescope (Microsoft®) tours, linked directly from the eText, give students the opportunity to interactively explore celestial objects using real telescope data.
• MasteringAstronomy Process of Science tutorials are built around key Learning Goals to help students understand how astronomers approach scientific problems and learn about the universe.
• Find out how your students are doing before the first exam: the color-coded gradebook instantly identifies students in trouble and challenging topics for your class as a whole.
• Assessment you can use: easily captures data to demonstrate assessment outcomes.