Living Online: Computational Modeling and Lab Activities in Introductory Electricity and Magnetism

Post-pandemic online classes have evolved to be different from pre-pandemic online courses. It is increasingly required that instructors augment face-to-face instruction with online flexibility or full time online instruction. This move requires changes to the computational modeling activities as well as the lab activities in introductory physics. We will discuss how computational modeling activities and labs have been changed post-pandemic in a second-semester introductory physics course. In particular, we will address how real-time instructor trouble-shooting can be supplemented with scaffolding such as computational simulation and lab kits that can be peppered throughout the course.