math help 24 /7 website
DESCRIPTION
MATH HELP 24 /7 Website. Innovations Conference Open Educational Resources March 4, 2014 8:00-9:00. Valencia College. Founded 1967 Serving students in Orange, Osceola, and Seminole counties 5 campuses 71,000 students 22% of all UCF grads started at Valencia - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: MATH HELP 24 /7 Website](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062315/568163f2550346895dd57218/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
MATH HELP 24/7 Website
Innovations ConferenceOpen Educational ResourcesMarch 4, 20148:00-9:00
![Page 2: MATH HELP 24 /7 Website](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062315/568163f2550346895dd57218/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Valencia College• Founded 1967• Serving students in Orange, Osceola, and Seminole counties• 5 campuses• 71,000 students• 22% of all UCF grads started at Valencia• Inaugural winner of the Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence
![Page 3: MATH HELP 24 /7 Website](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062315/568163f2550346895dd57218/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
East Campus Math Department– the numbers
• 35 Full-time faculty• 59 Adjunct faculty• 4 Full-time staff• 87 Lab instructors and tutors• Over 22,000 enrollments/yr• 911 sections taught• 25 LinC classes (9 online)• 67 SL sections
![Page 4: MATH HELP 24 /7 Website](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062315/568163f2550346895dd57218/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Math Help 24/7 the beginning• Pencast presentation at department meeting (fall 2010)
• College and Campus presidents in attendance• Faculty excitement over the presentation• Campus president enthusiasm over the
possibilities • I suggested it would be very easy to create a site
with solutions to textbook problems• Willingness to fund a project to provide student support
![Page 5: MATH HELP 24 /7 Website](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062315/568163f2550346895dd57218/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Livescribe pen
![Page 6: MATH HELP 24 /7 Website](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062315/568163f2550346895dd57218/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Many Decisions • Tutorial Topics or Homework Solutions?• Faculty thought Homework Solutions would be
too limiting• Which Topics?• Polled the Department• Participating Faculty Sign Up for Topics• Your choice of technology
• Files or Links?
![Page 7: MATH HELP 24 /7 Website](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062315/568163f2550346895dd57218/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
How to organize the site?• Courses, then topics• Review or Not Review Videos?• Led to Multiple Links per Topic
• Use links multiple times across courses• Personalize it• Instructor Pics•Hobbies
![Page 8: MATH HELP 24 /7 Website](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062315/568163f2550346895dd57218/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Proposal Developed, Funding Received
• 25 Livescribe pens and flip cameras purchased• Equipment arrived Spring term 2011• Faculty led training sessions
• 25 faculty participated• Each faculty member was to develop and submit
12 videos in order to keep the equipment• Some faculty returned the equipment
• One lead faculty member and one web designer
![Page 9: MATH HELP 24 /7 Website](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062315/568163f2550346895dd57218/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Equipment list
• 25 Livescribe pens (4 gig) $150.00 ea.$3,750• 25 cases $ 25.00 ea. $ 625
• 50 dot tablets $ 15.00 ea. $ 750• 25 Flip video cameras $150.00 ea.$3,750• 25 tripods $ 15.00 ea. $ 375
• Total $9,250
![Page 10: MATH HELP 24 /7 Website](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062315/568163f2550346895dd57218/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Creating the website• 577 videos on the MATH HELP 24/7 website• Faculty training and collaboration• Variety of technologies used• Pencasts –
Jody De Voe• Flip Cameras –
Cathy Ferrer• Jing –
Joel Berman
![Page 11: MATH HELP 24 /7 Website](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062315/568163f2550346895dd57218/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Launched August 2011
Tracking Results
![Page 12: MATH HELP 24 /7 Website](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062315/568163f2550346895dd57218/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
How do students get there?• Faculty• Syllabus• Links on Faculty Websites
• Valencia College Website• Student Support• All campuses have links from their Department
page
• Posters in Math classrooms
![Page 13: MATH HELP 24 /7 Website](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062315/568163f2550346895dd57218/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
/math/ Web Stats Monthly Report • Unique Visitors and Pageviews by Page • Document Downloads • Visits and pages by Source – google• Visits by browser - Firefox • Total Unique Events• Unique Visitors and Pageviews by Date • Keyword • Visits and Pageviews by Social Network • Visits and pages by city
![Page 14: MATH HELP 24 /7 Website](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062315/568163f2550346895dd57218/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Student Reactions – summer 2012
• “It was helpful and informative”• “Very helpful”• “Amazing. I like the person who is doing the teaching.”• “I didn’t like how it worked and I was uncomfortable with it.”• “It’s great; we need more topics.”• “It’s helpful, but its more beneficial in the actual math tutoring center.”• “Awesome”
![Page 15: MATH HELP 24 /7 Website](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062315/568163f2550346895dd57218/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Additional Benefits• Lecture Notes• Capture the semester’s lectures on video• Build an online course
• Use to demonstrate good note–taking skills• Selected Homework Solutions• Test Solutions• Answer Student Email Questions• Tutoring Staff
![Page 16: MATH HELP 24 /7 Website](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062315/568163f2550346895dd57218/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Maintenance Senior Instructional Assistant – Yasir Khan
• Errors• Additions• Faculty suggestions• Student suggestions
• Feedback