Higher Education Physics
Overview
Give physics students the practice, real-world examples and feedback they need to cement their understanding using our time-saving digital teaching resources developed by physicists:
- MasteringPhysics offers a simple way to personalise learning and manage assignments for your first year and non-specialist students.
- Learning Catalytics (co-developed by Harvard Professor Eric Mazur) helps foster student engagement through a variety of real-time response tools.
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Technology enhanced learning
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MasteringPhysics
Offer students a supportive digital environment to practice their subject, complete assignments and test their understanding.
MasteringPhysics is an online programme that adapts to each student, creating an engaging, effective and measurable learning experience.
MasteringPhysics is designed to work with your set text. Choose from a range of texts available with MasteringPhysics.
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Learning Catalytics
Increase student engagement in large cohorts with this classroom response system. Students bring their own device, and you can set 18 different types of question including graphical, quantitative, long form qualitative and multiple choice formats. Assess your students' understanding in real time.
Learning Catalytics was co-developed by Harvard physics professor Eric Mazur and is available within MasteringPhysics.
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Instructor resources
Most Pearson textbooks and digital resources are supported by free online lecture resources such as PowerPoint slides, companion websites and case studies to help you and your students get the most out of your text recommendation or adoption. These free resources offer you easy-to-use class activities.
This video shows how to access free resources in the Instructor Resource Centre, examples of types of resource available, and the technical support on hand to help you.
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Beyond Labz
Move your physical labs online with Beyond Labz.
Virtual Physics simulations and activities focus on qualitative and quantitative experiments exploring uniform motion, circular motion, ramp motion, falling bodies, projectiles, frictions, collisions, and the solar system.
New and widely adopted textbooks
What your peers and students are saying?
"When there are graphs, MasteringPhysics presents things much more clearly than a textbook does because there are animations… It’s really helpful when the program explains the process of how to think about the problems and how to actually solve them."
— Student, Pennsylvania State University
Student success services
Online Learning Units
With students arriving at university after years of disrupted education, the transition period and maintaining their wellbeing could be an especially difficult time for this year’s cohort.
Our Online Learning Units give institutions the opportunity to support students in building the skills and confidence they need to have a successful university experience.
Find out more about our FREE Online Learning Unit on Wellbeing
Customise your own print or digital content
Can't find a text to match your course?
From eBooks to whole online courses, we work with instructors to create a customised print or technology solution specific to your course.