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Hood College Test Site Experience

Hood College Test Site Experience. An Overview. Kimber Tysdal. 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

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Hood College Test Site Experience

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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 • One full professor: Betty Mayfield • Three assistant professors: Kimber Tysdal, Ann Stewart, Judy Seymour (part time) • Visiting assistant professor: Martha Meadows • Several adjuncts!

  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 1st edition of Calculus: Modeling and Application • In Fall 2006, we switched our Calculus I classes to the 2nd (online) edition; Calculus II followed in Spring 2007

  5. Testing Calculus I Fall 2006: three sections of Calculus I • Two instructors • Four TAs • Seventy students Spring 2007: one section of Calculus I • One instructor • One TA • Twenty students

  6. Testing Calculus II Spring 2007: two sections of Calculus II • Two instructors • Five TAs • Forty-five 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 • Developing new versions of labs and projects

  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

  9. Hood will continue to use the online text in 2007-2008 Tomorrow I’ll talk specifically about what it’s like to teach with these materials

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