MATH HELP
24/7 Website
Innovations Conference
Open Educational Resources
March 4, 2014
8:00-9:00
Valencia College
• Founded 1967
• Serving students in Orange, Osceola, and Seminole
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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.
• 25 cases
• 50 dot tablets
• 25 Flip video cameras
• 25 tripods
• Total
$ 25.00 ea.
$ 15.00 ea.
$150.00 ea.
$ 15.00 ea.
$3,750
$ 625
$ 750
$3,750
$ 375
$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
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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