Comments on: Online Course Design for Mathematics

By: Maria H. Andersen

Maria H. Andersen — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:20:00 +0000

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.

By: Laura Schaffer

Laura Schaffer — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:33:40 +0000

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?

By: Alpharia

Alpharia — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:20:25 +0000

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…

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By: Mitch

Mitch — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:22:51 +0000

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.)