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Moving Mathematics Online - Carmen Latterell, eLearn Magazine

When the first author started teaching, she used to brush the chalk dust off her clothes before going home. Now, she checks that all changes to the Web sites have been uploaded. Her average student was right out of high school. Now, the average student is an adult learner, returning to be educated for a second or third career. Many of these adults have not had a mathematics course in many years and find college mathematics daunting. The methods behind mathematics teaching and learning need to change to accommodate this changing learner population. One change with which the authors have had success, especially for adult learners, is moving mathematics online. How people learn and teach has changed dramatically in the last twenty years. Online adult learners have become a significant population. However, mathematics learning and teaching has remained more static than other subject areas. What has occurred to date has largely been successful; in fact, some colleges have put entire mathematics programs online for the purpose of recruiting adult learners.

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