Course development and active learning: a retrospective spanning nine courses

Abstract: The long term success of a new course depends on a lot of factors: personnel to teach the course, student incentives to take the course and learning goals (careful, different interested parties are likely to see these differently).

I will tell some stories of course development spanning courses for pre-service teachers, calculus courses, and graduate level applied mathematics. Questions that will arise include whether to tweak an existing course versus re-invent from scratch and what pedagogies to build into the course. For clarity on the issue of pedagogy, one needs a solid understanding of the factors above, particularly the learning goals

mathematics education

Audience: researchers in the topic

Online Seminar On Undergraduate Mathematics Education

Series comments: Description: Seminar on university-level math education

OLSUME is an online seminar centered on mathematics education at the university level. Talks will cover curriculum, pedagogy, inclusiveness, professional development, blended and flipped classrooms, and other topics of interest.

ZOOM LINK: cornell.zoom.us/j/92415199317 Password: olsume