A talk on ``Using the Web for a math for non-math-majors course''
will be given on the morning of Saturday, March 11, at the
79th Annual MAA Southeastern Section Meeting, in Charlotte, NC.
WebCT is a world wide web
based environment for enhancing teaching and learning, which
is now in its third semester of use at Spelman College. In the
Fall of '99 alone, over 400 Spelman students used it for classes,
in mathematics, biology, chemistry, English, Spanish, sociology,
political science, history and more.
This
semester, its use is expanding across campus.
WebCT can be used to supplement the delivery of course material
and information and to provide a forum for discussion among
students as well as between instructor and students. It
allows for online quizzes (which are automatically graded)
and provides a convenient place to maintain all student
records (and they can check their averages as often as they
wish without bugging faculty). A key point here is that all
of this activity takes place outside of the classroom, at
times convenient to the indivual students, thus enriching the
learning experience without sacreficing valuable class time.
Nationally, WebCT Math
Courses are being developed rapidly. So far at Spelman,
WebCT has been used in Math 107 (Contemporary Math), Math 193
(Honors Quantatative Reasoning and Methods), and in Math 371
& 472 (Abstract Algebra I & II). Starting in the Fall of 1999,
all of Dr. Mulcahy's classes
have been taught with the help of WebCT.
(This is http://www.spelman.edu/~colm/webct.html,
click here to return to main page.)