MATH HELP 24/7 Website

Innovations ConferenceOpen Educational ResourcesMarch 4, 20148:00-9:00

Valencia College• Founded 1967• Serving students in Orange, Osceola, and Seminole counties• 5 campuses• 71,000 students• 22% of all UCF grads started at Valencia• Inaugural winner of the Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence

East Campus Math Department– the numbers

• 35 Full-time faculty• 59 Adjunct faculty• 4 Full-time staff• 87 Lab instructors and tutors• Over 22,000 enrollments/yr• 911 sections taught• 25 LinC classes (9 online)• 67 SL sections

Math Help 24/7 the beginning• Pencast presentation at department meeting (fall 2010)

• College and Campus presidents in attendance• Faculty excitement over the presentation• Campus president enthusiasm over the

possibilities • I suggested it would be very easy to create a site

with solutions to textbook problems• Willingness to fund a project to provide student support

Livescribe pen

Many Decisions • Tutorial Topics or Homework Solutions?• Faculty thought Homework Solutions would be

too limiting• Which Topics?• Polled the Department• Participating Faculty Sign Up for Topics• Your choice of technology

• Files or Links?

How to organize the site?• Courses, then topics• Review or Not Review Videos?• Led to Multiple Links per Topic

• Use links multiple times across courses• Personalize it• Instructor Pics•Hobbies

Proposal Developed, Funding Received

• 25 Livescribe pens and flip cameras purchased• Equipment arrived Spring term 2011• Faculty led training sessions

• 25 faculty participated• Each faculty member was to develop and submit

12 videos in order to keep the equipment• Some faculty returned the equipment

• One lead faculty member and one web designer

Equipment list

• 25 Livescribe pens (4 gig) $150.00 ea.$3,750• 25 cases $ 25.00 ea. $ 625

• 50 dot tablets $ 15.00 ea. $ 750• 25 Flip video cameras $150.00 ea.$3,750• 25 tripods $ 15.00 ea. $ 375

• Total $9,250

Creating the website• 577 videos on the MATH HELP 24/7 website• Faculty training and collaboration• Variety of technologies used• Pencasts –

Jody De Voe• Flip Cameras –

Cathy Ferrer• Jing –

Joel Berman

Launched August 2011

Tracking Results

How do students get there?• Faculty• Syllabus• Links on Faculty Websites

• Valencia College Website• Student Support• All campuses have links from their Department

page

• Posters in Math classrooms

/math/ Web Stats Monthly Report • Unique Visitors and Pageviews by Page • Document Downloads • Visits and pages by Source – google• Visits by browser - Firefox • Total Unique Events• Unique Visitors and Pageviews by Date • Keyword • Visits and Pageviews by Social Network • Visits and pages by city

Student Reactions – summer 2012

• “It was helpful and informative”• “Very helpful”• “Amazing. I like the person who is doing the teaching.”• “I didn’t like how it worked and I was uncomfortable with it.”• “It’s great; we need more topics.”• “It’s helpful, but its more beneficial in the actual math tutoring center.”• “Awesome”

Additional Benefits• Lecture Notes• Capture the semester’s lectures on video• Build an online course

• Use to demonstrate good note–taking skills• Selected Homework Solutions• Test Solutions• Answer Student Email Questions• Tutoring Staff

Maintenance Senior Instructional Assistant – Yasir Khan

• Errors• Additions• Faculty suggestions• Student suggestions

• Feedback

Open Resource• Google Mathhelp 24/7• Spread the word

• Questions?• Maryke Lee• mllee@valenciacollege.edu