Using Technology to Promote Mathematical Discourse Concerning Women in Mathematics

As mathematics teachers, we are fortunate to have a wide variety of textbooks available for almost any area of mathematics taught in the typical K–16 curriculum. This past year, however, I found myself delving into the topic of women in mathematics, a subject not covered in any suitable textbook. Rather than trying to use multiple books, I examined types of mathematical discourse that would enable my students to learn and communicate the course material despite the lack of a formal textbook. In this article, I will discuss my use of cooperative groups, the course management system Blackboard, and the Internet to foster communication and meaningful mathematical discourse.

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Open Source Survey Software

Handbook of Research on Electronic Surveys and Measurements ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-792-8.ch030 ◽

2007 ◽

pp. 273-275 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

J. Baker

Keyword(s):

Open Source ◽

Operating Systems ◽

Software Design ◽

Management System ◽

Online Community ◽

Course Management System ◽

The Internet ◽

Course Management ◽

Online Surveys ◽

Software Programs

One of the significant advances in software design afforded by the internet has been the open source movement, an effort to collaboratively create software and make it widely and freely available to the online community. Although the open source movement started with Unix-like computer operating systems, it has expanded to include a wide variety of software programs, including tools to publish and analyze online surveys. This article introduces the open source movement and then profiles three leading open source survey programs: php Easy Survey Package (phpESP), PHP Surveyor, and the Moodle course management system.

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Open Source Survey Software

Software Applications ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-060-8.ch008 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 82-84 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jason D. Baker

Keyword(s):

Open Source ◽

Operating Systems ◽

Software Design ◽

Management System ◽

Online Community ◽

Course Management System ◽

The Internet ◽

Course Management ◽

Online Surveys ◽

Software Programs

One of the significant advances in software design afforded by the Internet has been the open source movement, an effort to collaboratively create software and make it widely and freely available to the online community. Although the open source movement started with Unix-like computer operating systems, it has expanded to include a wide variety of software programs, including tools to publish and analyze online surveys. This chapter introduces the open source movement, and then profiles three leading open source survey programs: php Easy Survey Package (phpESP), PHP Surveyor, and the Moodle course management system.

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Critical Thinking in a Collaborative Online PBL Tutorial

Journal of Educational Computing Research ◽

10.2190/ec.41.2.b ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 41 (2) ◽

pp. 155-170 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Robyn Schell ◽

David Kaufman

Keyword(s):

Medical Education ◽

Critical Thinking ◽

Management System ◽

Problem Based Learning ◽

Course Management System ◽

The Internet ◽

Course Management ◽

Collaborative Problem ◽

The Web

The web has the potential to offer an environment that can support standardized medical education to students dispersed in time or place and, in the process, respond to reduced availability of patients for practice. This exploratory article describes how we evaluated critical thinking in an online collaborative Problem-based Learning (PBL) tutorial built on a platform integrating a well-known course management system and a voice-over the Internet communications tool. We discuss the process and results of evaluating the tutorials by adapting and applying an earlier framework used to measure the level of critical thinking taking place in collaborative online PBL tutorials. Our results indicate that this framework could be used as a method to compare levels of critical thinking between tutorial groups as well as tutorial variables such as case study formats and the types of technology used to support the sessions.

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