Leading team:
- Dr. Shelly Livne
- Prof. Ron Blonder
Project team:
- Ehud Aviran
- Helly Buchris
- Sarit Shamai
- Raid Shurush
Secretariat and Administration:
Shani MotsaBrief
PeTeL – Personalized Teaching and Learning Center – is an initiative introduced by the Department of Science Teaching at the Weizmann Institute of Science. In the chemistry group we develop and study the chemistry branch of PeTeL – an online environment for teaching chemistry, designed to provide a customized solution for chemistry teachers. PeTeL is offering the chemistry teachers a personalized experience for the teaching and learning of chemistry. The goal of PeTeL-Chem is to make chemistry teaching tools accessible to teachers by utilizing a customized teaching and learning approach. Another key focus of the program is team-based student work, which characterizes the chemistry studies, especially the laboratory unit and the alternative assessment method. In this project we implement a unique database of diagnostic questions and tasks, developed by our group, in order to identify students’ misconceptions, and suggest appropriate teaching activities tailored to the data collected by the system, aimed at correcting these misconceptions. The PeTel-Chem supported the chemistry teachers in Israel during the remote teaching that was forced by the Covid-19 pandemic. More than 300 chemistry teachers joined the environment with their students and were able to organize their teaching in the PeTel-Chem environment.
Further reading:
Publications
- Aviran, E., Easa, E., Livne, S., & Blonder, R. (2020). Implementation of a personalized online learning system towards creating hybrid learning and teaching in chemistry classes. In D. Glick; A. Cohen, & C. Chang (Eds.). Early warning systems and targeted interventions for student success in online courses (pp. 90-110). IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-7998-5074-8.ch005