Abstract I have strived to be an educational innovator throughout my career at Camosun. As I enter the last few months of my post-retirement contract, I want to share with my colleagues lessons I have learned in promoting student success in online math. To that end, I attended the 2014 League for Innovations in the … Continue reading 2014 SD Year Report
This session was animated by the folks from Pearson, our department’s math textbook publisher and developer of the MathXL platform. Their presentation is available at http://www.scctv.net/league-dl/ppt/INV2014/s19632.zip. As an illustration of the use of modern technology in the classroom, we started off with http://www.polleverywhere.com/ that uses text messages to poll. Cave paintings may be the first application … Continue reading Social Media for Teaching and Learning
My plan for this year’s SD project was to learn more about, and further develop Open Education Resource (OER) materials for math education, particularly as it applied to supporting my Math 052, 053, 072 and 073 online learners. I also needed to further develop my own faculty website. To that end, I interacted with BCcampus personnel about undertaking … Continue reading 2013-2014 SD Year Report
Once you have completed the newly assigned Study Plan exercises, you can move on to the most important assignment for each unit, the Unit Final. Most of the grade for your course comes from writing the Unit Final Tests and the final exam. Like the post-test, the unit final tests must be completed in one sitting. Unlike the … Continue reading Unit Final
Once you have finished reviewing the completed pre-test in the Results area, head over to the Study Plan area. The next major assignment is the Post-test. Click on the Calendar button to see when that is due. However, before you will be allowed to access the post-test, you will need to go to the Study Plan area and complete (master) all … Continue reading Study Plan Assignments