
Ms. Shannon Michaux, UCCS Math instructor, teaching a MathOnline class as part of the Sloan Semester for Hurricane displaced students from the Gulf Coast
(Denver Post Article, October 2005)
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Online Teaching Enhancements
The Mathematics Department has a long tradition of embracing new technologies in and outside of the regular classoroom instruction.
The MathOnline Program, which started in 1998, has been successful in providing real classroom experience, as well as archived lectures, to off-campus students. Fall 2005 enrollment has reached at a record high and it is expected that demand for such courses at UCCS will continue to increase. A very unexpected but positive outcome of the MathOnline development was the ability to rapidly deploy Sloan Online Courses to students from the Gulf coast affected by the Hurricane season 2005.
The Mathematics department is developing online material to supplement the classroom experience. An extensive list of mini-lectures is already available for the Calculus Refresher Course, designed for students getting ready to enter the Calculus sequence. A similar project has been recently completed for Math 090 - Fundamental of College Algebra.
The Math Department is a pioneer in streaming video of mathematics lectures over the internet. During AY 2005-2006, several courses are being streamed and archived on the web as future online resource. Also, at the interface of research and teaching at the graduate level, the International Soliton Conference sponsored by the Math Department in June 2005 offered live streaming of the main lectures on the web. An archive of all video lectures (conference proceedings totally online) is available on our website, and is thought to be a world premier.
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