Experiences from the Past Six Years

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Online Course Tips Techniques
Experiences from the Past Six Years
Shawna Haider Associate Professor Mathematics
www.shawnahaider.com
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Online Courses

• Intermediate Algebra
• College Algebra
• Trigonometry

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Why reinvent the wheel?
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Online Readiness
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Mandatory Orientation
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Detailed Syllabus
Student success requires that professors
explain more things to todays students that we
once took for granted You must buy the
book, you must read it and come to class, you
must observe deadlines or make special
arrangements when you miss one Prof. Richard
Turner
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Vital Information for Course Survival

• One page
• Important things in a nutshell

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Most student say they want maximum flexibility
but most students cannot handle that much
flexibility
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Frequent Due Dates

• By Chapter
• By week
• All the time!

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Due Dates
 
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Schedule and Due Dates
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Schedule and Due Dates
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Symmetric about the y axis
FUNCTIONS
Symmetric about the origin
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These are functions that are defined differently
on different parts of the domain.
WISE
FUNCTIONS
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INCREASING
CONSTANT
DECREASING
Functions
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The center of the graph is called the pole.
Angles are measured from the positive x axis.
Points are represented by a radius and an angle
radius
angle
(r, ?)
To plot the point
First find the angle
Then move out along the terminal side 5
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The equation for an ellipse can be derived by
using the definition and the distance formula.
The resulting equation is
The values of a, b, and c tell us about the size
of our ellipse.
b
a
a
c
c
b
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Find the vertices and foci and graph the ellipse
From the center the ends of major axis are "a"
each direction. "a" is the square root of
this value
The ends of this axis are the vertices
From the center the ends of minor axis are "b"
each direction. "b" is the square root of this
value
(-3, 0)
(3, 0)
To find the foci, they are "c" away from the
center in each direction. Find "c" by the
equation
We can now draw the ellipse
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We could have a function that is transformed both
vertically AND horizontally.
up 3
left 2
Above is the graph of
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moves up 1
reflects about the x -axis
moves right 2
Winplot
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• Examples Using Camtasia and Tablet PC
• Easy and quick
• Can give tips while explaining
• Compressed Flash file
• Not glitzy production but thats what students
  like about them

example
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• Imbedded Homework No Do Homework Button
• Quizzes for each section
• 3-5 questions
• Can take up to 5 times
• Can you do this without help and are you ready
  to move on?
• Students can appeal for partial credit on
  online tests

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Communication

• Teacher to Student
• Links in Course
• Announcements
• E-Mail
• Whiteboard
• Wimba
• Student to Teacher
• Ask My Instructor
• E-Mail
• Discussion Board
• Wimba
• Student to Student
• Discussion Board

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Synchronous review sessions(archived) Virtual
Office Hours Tablet PC Whiteboard, sound via
microphone or telephone
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Online
Discussions
No Field of Dreams phenomena here
"Successful online discussions can build
community, keep students on time with their
coursework, help students when they have trouble
with material, and encourage analysis and
synthesis, not just knowledge-telling. They are
essential to making an online class into more
than a correspondence course. Yet it can seem as
though our colleagues in English and history are
the ones with all the good discussion ideas,
while those of us in math and science are limited
to the relatively dull task of asking students to
post a homework problem."
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• Proctored Mid-term (20 of grade)
• Proctored Departmental Final (25 of grade)

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Color Coded Buttons
MML
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• Enrollment cap of 35 students
• 24 students completed the course
• 22 of the 24 students received a C or better
• Three students dropped within the first
  week (never got started)
• Eight students withdrew

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• Enrollment cap of 35 students
• Five students dropped within the first week
  (never got started)
• Four students have withdrawn

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Questions? Contact Information
e-mail shawna.haider_at_slcc.edu
webpage http//rwdacad01.slcc.edu/academics/dept/
math/shaider/
www.shawnahaider.com