1. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0126793, 0341468 and 0717624. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation DISSEMINATION OF NUMERICAL METHODS RESOURCES BEYOND THE TEXTBOOK, CONFERENCE, AND A PAPER Autar Kaw and Melinda Hess, University of South Florida; Egwu Kalu, Florida A&M University; Steven Barnicki, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Duc Nguyen, Old Dominion University Resources on Website: Resources on Website: All resources for the numerical methods course are available in multiple forms on the website at http://numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu. These include a) background information, b) textbooks on Numerical Methods and Introduction to Matrix Algebra, c) PowerPoint presentations, d) worksheets in MATLAB, MathCAD, MATHEMATICA and Maple, e) multiple-choice tests, f) anecdotes, g) eBooks, h) videos (prototype), i) blog, and j) experiments. The website was awarded the 2004 ASME Curriculum Innovation Award, received the 2006 ASEE DELOS Best Paper Award, is ranked #9 out of 2.18 million hits in Google™ search for numerical methods, and is viewed by more than 100,000 unique visitors annually. We firmly share the following: We firmly share the following: First, provide open dissemination of educational materials, philosophy, and modes of thought, that will help lead to fundamental changes in the way colleges and universities utilize the Web as a vehicle for education – MIT OCW. Second, provide resources that are pedagogically neutral that can be modified to suit anyone's needs. Introduction: – John Lloyd Young playing Frankie Vallie (Frankie Castelluccio) in the Broadway play, Jersey Boys. Introduction: The label is nuts for Marianne. Gaudio and crew had written another one – just for me - a solo number. The President of the label isn’t interested, “I do not know Bobby, it is too hard to be pop, and too soft to be rock.” You want to get a hit song – it is like stations at the cross, you got to get past the record company, program directors, the Deejays, and if you are lucky, you get to the people – John Lloyd Young playing Frankie Vallie (Frankie Castelluccio) in the Broadway play, Jersey Boys. For the 21st century, a cliché from the 20th century needs to be borrowed – we need a paradigm shift in thinking about dissemination avenues. It used to be that presenting a paper at a national conference, printing it in a journal and having a textbook contract with a nationally known publisher was more than enough. Avenues are now available that compel us to go beyond the traditional dissemination. These include but are not limited to: a) Resources on a Website, b) Blogging, c) Digital Audiovisual Content, and d) Self Published Textbooks. Digital Audiovisual Content: Digital Audiovisual Content: Video lectures are a necessary and technologically possible component to the content factor of any online learning resource. Videos (prototype – full version available in May 2009) are available as streaming and downloadable video from YOUTUBE and the project website. Blogging: Blogging: Many students ask me questions during the lecture period, via email, or during office hours. Also via personal response (clicker) quizzes conducted in class, I find out the concepts that most of them do not understand. Students at USF are no different than in many other institutions. They too must have similar questions and misunderstandings. In May 2008, a blog http://autarkaw.wordpress.com was started and many of these questions are now readily answered on the web. Questions include why higher order interpolation is a bad idea (see figure above) to quantifying advantages of LU Decomposition method. Self Published Textbooks: Self Published Textbooks: In 2007, Radiohead made history when an established musical group self-released their CD and allowed their fans to pay as much as they think their CD is worth. In a similar spirit, in March 2008, we self-published a book on Introduction to Matrix Algebra, while a book on Numerical Methods with Applications will be self-published on December 10, 2008. University of South Florida and Arizona State University will start using the Numerical Methods book in Spring 2009, while Florida A&M and Old Dominion University will adopt it in Fall 2009. Conclusions: Conclusions: The development of Numerical Method resources has been funded by three consecutive NSF CCLI grants since 2002. To maximize our audience, we have not only used the traditional dissemination avenues such as presentations at conferences and publishing journal articles, but also put the complete resources in multiple formats on the web, used blogs, uploaded videos to YouTube, and self-published textbooks. Many of these avenues were assessed for their effectiveness. The feedback from the assessment is used to enhance the quality and availability of these resources.