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Use FlexEd ‘out-of-the-box’ or customize to your course: our team will tailor to your syllabus and will set it up for you.
XanEdu FlexEd Astronomy contains a wide range of materials and activities that you can use to create your own courseware that matches your syllabus, instructional methods, and modalities. Our easy-to-use platform means that our system adapts to your syllabus, simplifying learning for both you and your students.
FlexEd builds upon the top-quality OpenStax text with Activities/Simulations, practice assessments with feedback, SME-selected and curated videos, open-ended homework assignments, and more.
This new digital platform restores your time to teaching rather than course administration. As a premier OpenStax print partner, XanEdu has designed FlexEd to enhance the OpenStax experience. FlexEd features carefully selected and videos and supplemental materials for each topic, as well as adaptive assessments, homework, lecture slides, and more.
Student engagement metrics are at your fingertips so that you can provide individualized support, all within the FlexEd platform and, of course, any part of the FlexEd course can be easily customized in real time.
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More about the FlexEd Astonomy course:
Astronomy courseware begins with relevant scientific fundamentals and progresses through an exploration of the solar system, stars, galaxies, and cosmology. It builds understanding through the use of relevant analogies, clear and non-technical explanations, and rich illustrations. Mathematics is also included in a flexible manner.
UNIQUE FEATURES
ACTIVITIES: Activities (one per chapter) that leverage online interactives and simulations from providers such as NAAP Lab Tools, PhET, Webb Telescope, Tectonic Explore (Concord Consortium), Black Hole Collision Calculator, Dark Matter Simulator, and more. These activities ask students to apply their learning from the chapter in an interactive experience. Suggested answers are provided for instructors.
PRACTICE ASSESSMENTS: Practice assessments (tied to specific learning objectives) with instructional feedback allow for assessment as a learning tool rather than simply an evaluation tool. These assessments prepare students for high-stakes exams, serve as a self-evaluation tool, and focus learning on areas where students show deficiency. These also allow students to be more self-sufficient and rely less on immediate access to their instructor when they struggle.
VIDEOS: SME-selected and curated videos to meet students where they learn today. Incorporating these videos into the learning platform means that they are more likely to be viewed and more tightly integrated into the content. This also keeps students from searching YouTube on their own.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES
