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1 Hood College Test Site Experience An Overview Kimber Tysdal

2 Hood College at a glance Private liberal arts college in Frederick, MD Current enrollment 1200 undergraduates and 1000 graduate students Historically a women’s college, but admitted men as commuters in the 1970s Currently fully coeducational Significant commuter population

3 Hood’s Math Department In 2008-2009: One full professor: Betty Mayfield One associate professor: Kimber Tysdal Four assistant professors: Ann Stewart, Jill Tysse, James Parsons, Judy Seymour (part time) Several adjuncts! In 2009-2010 New assistant professor: Jill Dunham

4 Project CALC at Hood Hood has been teaching with Project CALC materials since sometime in the 1990’s Until Fall 2006, this meant using the 1 st edition of Calculus: Modeling and Application In Fall 2006, we switched our Calculus I classes to the 2 nd (online) edition; Calculus II followed in Spring 2007

5 Calculus I Fall 2006 Spring 2007 Fall 2007 Spring 2008 Fall 2008 Spring 2009 # of Sections 313131 # of TAs413160 # of Students 702070157020 InstructorsMartha Kimber Martha Ann Kimber MarthaJill Ann Kimber Ann Total: 265 students

6 Calculus II Spring 2007 Fall 2007Spring 2008 Fall 2008Spring 2009 # of Sections 21212 # of TAs51104 # of Students 4515401240 InstructorsJudy Kimber Judy Ann JudyJill Ann Total: 152 students

7 Challenges Getting students to accept an online text Learning how to use the text in class Convincing students to read the text Editing while teaching Fewer examples than a standard text Order of topics is not standard

8 Benefits Direct links to technology Links to outside information Answers to checkpoints and activities are “hidden” A chance to impact the current edition of the text now Exercises using WebWorks

9 Hood will continue to use the online text in 2009-2010 Tomorrow I’ll talk specifically about what it’s like to teach with these materials


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