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The instructor experience of fully online tertiary mathematics: a challenge and an opportunity
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posted on 2015-12-22, 13:18 authored by Sven Trenholm, Lara AlcockLara Alcock, Carol RobinsonAs part of a dramatic recent shift in tertiary education, many undergraduate students now learn
mathematics via fully online courses. At present, the mathematics education research
community knows very little about this shift, and in this report, we consider implications of an
investigation into the instructor experience of fully online undergraduate mathematics courses.
We explored assessment schemes, feedback practices, and approaches to teaching and used
semistructured interviews to compare instructor experiences of fully online and face-to-face
discussion, assessment, and feedback. The main emergent theme was instructor concern about
the loss of short-cycle face-to-face human interaction. We argue that this concern is serious but
should be seen as an opportunity for education researchers to leverage knowledge about
effective mathematics teaching to simultaneously alleviate instructors’ difficulties and promote
and study pedagogical development.
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Journal for Research in Mathematics EducationCitation
TRENHOLM, S., ALCOCK, L. and ROBINSON, C., 2016. The instructor experience of fully online tertiary mathematics: a challenge and an opportunity. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 47 (2), pp. 147-161.Publisher
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