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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 In 2008-2009: • One full professor: Betty Mayfield • One associate professor: Kimber Tysdal • Four assistant professors: Ann Stewart, Jill Tysse, James Parsons, Judy Seymour (part time) • Several adjuncts! In 2009-2010 • New assistant professor: Jill Dunham

  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. Calculus I Total: 265 students

  6. Calculus II Total: 152 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 • Fewer examples than a standard text • Order of topics is not standard

  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 • Exercises using WebWorks

  9. Hood will continue to use the online text in 2009-2010 Tomorrow I’ll talk specifically about what it’s like to teach with these materials

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