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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 Robinson
As 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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  • Science

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  • Mathematics Education Centre

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Journal for Research in Mathematics Education

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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.

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© National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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2016

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This paper is closed access.

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1945-2306

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  • en

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