David Lippman (Main Presentation): OER, MOOCS, and the Future of Education

The cost of education and textbooks is growing much faster than inflation, making it harder for our students to achieve their goals. Open educational resources (OER) can help reduce this cost by providing free textbooks and courseware for students, while simultaneously giving faculty more control over the curriculum. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are bringing open access free courses from top schools to students around the country. How can we take advantage of these movements, and how might they impact the future of higher education?

David Lippman (Breakout Session): Free Online Courseware: MyOpenMath/IMathAS

MyOpenMath (aka IMathAS) provides free and open algorithmically generated homework with automated grading of algebraic, numeric, and graphical answers. Course materials are available to supplement free and open textbooks in prealgebra, algebra, precalculus, trig, and topics in college math. This session with give an overview of the system, share some examples from the courses, show off some unique features, and most importantly answer your questions.

David Lippman & James Sousa (Live Webinar): OER for Mathematics

David Lippman (Pierce College) and James Sousa (Phoenix College) will co-present live at Phoenix College about open educational resources for mathematics, featuring MyOpenMath, a free, open source math instruction platform, and the mathispower4u video tutorial library. MyOpenMath provides open courses featuring free, open textbooks (for prealgebra, beginning and intermediate algebra, precalculus and trigonometry), rich online assessments with instant feedback, and tutorial videos, many from the extensive mathispower4u library. These courses can be adapted by educators for use with their students, or used in a self-study format by students.

Ted Coe (Scottsdale CC): Promoting Multiplicative Thinking With Geogebra

After a brief introduction to Geogebra I will demonstrate activities that teachers can use with students to promote multiplicative thinking..

Ana Jiménez (Pima CC): Tricks of the Trade

From community building to assessment, strategies that encourage student success.

Jennifer Bohart, William Meachem, Donna Gaudet (Scottsdate CC): Expanding the Traditional Classroom, an OER Approach

This presentation demonstrates how Scottsdale Community College is using Open Educational Resource (OER) materials and technologies in their developmental mathematics courses.  This approach provides a means of extending the student’s learning experience beyond the classroom walls.  As a result, time within the classroom can be devoted to richer and deeper learning activities.

James Sousa & Marianna McClymonds (Phoenix College): Removing Obstacles to Student Success Using Open Educational Resources (OER)

Imagine all of your students leaving the first day of class with all of the course materials they need to be successful for free, including an eBook, online homework, videos and more. This presentation will demonstrate how Open Educational Resources (OER) materials are being used to teach a variety of math courses. The materials are flexible enough to be used in face-to-face, flipped, hybrid, or online courses. Data will be presented on student success and student surveys.

David Graser (Yavapai College): Flip This…Using Class Time Differently!

Flipping the classroom is a method of teaching in which technology is used to deliver course content outside of the classroom. In this presentation, I’ll outline the logistical issues that need to be faced in a flipped classroom. Since a flipped classroom opens up more time for interacting with students, I’ll discuss ways you can use this time effectively. Ideas I’ll examine include project based learning, group board work, and peer review.

Marianne Auten, (Counseling Faculty, PVCC): Changing Mindset Changes Motivation

Do your students have a fixed mindset or a growth mindset? The answer to that question makes all the difference in their level of effort, in what they do with challenges and obstacles, and in how they handle criticism. Based on the groundbreaking ideas of Stanford Psychologist Carol Dweck, this session will explore where mindsets come from, the impact they have in every aspect of our lives, and most importantly, how we can develop a growth mindset in our students (and in ourselves!). Growth mindset = increased motivation; come experience strategies and activities that can make all the difference in student success, particularly in math!

Tim Bryan (Phoenix College): iPad Share Session

I will give a brief demonstration of various apps I am using in my math classes. After which, others may also share their experiences using iPads for their classes. Show how you are using the iPad in the classroom or come and see how you might incorporate the iPad in your classes.

Reetika Dhawan (Arizona Western College, ArizMATYC Scholarship Recipient): Ancient India’s Contribution to Math

Contribution to Zero and place value notation for numbers, Bakshali Manuscript ,Indian Trigonometry and contribute to the fundamentals of numbers .

Maria Herrera-Bill (Phoenix College): Inverting the Developmental Mathematics Classroom

The premise of this presentation is to show the effectiveness of the inverted classroom in a truly developmental course where students are beginning at well below the University entrance track. The implementation of the inverted classroom will need the intervention of other tools to make sure that a student in that level of understanding can succeed. The presentation will show an inverted classroom model accompanied by various other tools to help students in developmental courses succeed. The data and information gathered will show the effects of the inverted classroom and the tools used in the classroom

Paul Golisch (PVCC): Flipping the Classroom: Flipping the Developmental Math Classroom in Hybrid (half online) Courses

Many community college students can only get to class once a week for math class.  In this presentation, you will see how a class can be structured to utilize OERs and other strategies to teach half of the course online and maximize the class time for student engagement and more difficult portions of the lessons.  The “AEIOU” method and information from student surveys and other data will be shared.