Online Course Design for Mathematics
This week I have been participating in the MAA PREP course, Calculus: Online and Interactive. I was asked to give a presentation on online course design for mathematics, and the presentation was recorded.
This is a loooooong one (two hours), but it is packed with information, ideas, and design tips. If you’re going to teach online for the first time, or just want some guidance for revamping your online math course, I think you’ll find it helpful.
There are nine parts to the presentation:
- Virtual Classroom (overall course design)
- Interactive Learning Materials
- Video Lessons
- Online Homework
- Blended Environment
- Student Engagement
- Equations and Graphs
- Orientation and Setup
- The Math Testing Issue
You can view the slides below or here.
To watch the whole presentation, go here to the Adobe Connect recorded webinar.
There are also two mindmaps that you might want to investigate that are mentioned in this presentation:
You may also be interested in the online Calculus textbook, Calculus: Modeling and Application, 2nd edition, which may be used free for the next academic school year (supported by an NSF grant).
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Thanks for sharing this, Maria. Although I don’t teach online, I do want to use a lot more online resources with my class in the fall, and this gave me a lot of ideas of tools to use and how to use them. (I have to admit to multitasking while watching it, since it was so long, but since not everything was relevant to my situation, that seemed like the perfect way to do it.)
Good Idea, online course of Math… I think, can make students get easy to learn math. In Indonesia, Math is like monster for students…so in Indonesia, Math course is idol for parents…
Math Course
I do have a logistics question. My school has access to Moodle, but we do not have wireless access in my building, so it would be basically used for students with internet access to reference at home. I really liked your idea of using the platform as a staging area to organize resources and prepare for it to go hybrid or online in the future. My question is with ownership. In the current Michigan economic climate, it is unsure how long I will be with my current district. Would I lose access to all my work? Is there a way to store it on a personal platform or transfer it if needed?
Every system I’ve worked with allows you to save an archive of your class. There are import features that allow you to bring that archive back to life in the same LMS and often in alternative LMS’s. There is even an application called bFree (http://its2.unc.edu/tl/tli/bFree/) that allows you to extract a Blackboard course and rebuild it as a set of web pages.
The biggest concern I’d have is where you’re hosting videos. It’s easiest to pick up and move if your videos are hosted in your own account somewhere.