what did you find of most value from the instructor lectures in this algebra course

What is MyMathLab?

All online courses over the two-year period were required to have access to MyMathLab, an online multimedia educational system designed by Pearson Education to accompany its published mathematics textbooks. Students enrolled in the redesigned online College Algebra course were also required to use Moodle, the university’s online learning management system. All instructor-generated video lectures in the redesigned course were created by projecting PowerPoint presentations onto a SMART Podium Annotation Monitor and recording all handwritten solutions and oral explanations with Panopto, a lecture capture system. Instructor-generated explanations for how to use the graphing calculator were also recorded using Panopto and a document camera.

Is college algebra online?

The online College Algebra course offered by the open-enrollment university at the center of this study has a tendency to attract students who are mathematically weaker than the campus average. While these students might experience more success in a College Algebra course in a face-to-face format, for whatever reason they are choosing to enroll in the online course. As with any course—face-to-face or online—it is the responsibility of the instructor to incorporate course design techniques and instructional activities that are likely to encourage student engagement, persistence, and learning. This study suggests instructor-generated video lectures and coordinated note-taking sheets organized within modules mayincrease success among mathematically unprepared students enrolled in online freshman-level mathematics courses.

Is IRB approval required for online algebra?

Study participants included students who self-enrolled in the online College Algebra coursesoffered at an open-enrollment university in the Midwestern United States over a two-year period. All courses were assigned to the author and were available for enrollment throughout the regular registration periods. The chairperson of the university’s Institutional Research Board informed the author that standard educational practices were exempt from the IRB approval requirement. Therefore, since the author was simply teaching the online course differently than how it had been taught previously, IRB approval was not required. This study is limited by the fact that students were not randomly assigned to the courses included in the analysis, but perhaps strengthened by the fact that the author has been the only faculty member assigned to the online offerings of College Algebra at this university.