Category Archives: Resources
Screencasts for Active Calculus and the Inverted Classroom
It’s time to gear up for fall semester. Over the month of August ahead, I look forward to sharing some news and updates about Active Calculus and related matters here on the blog. I’m excited that among the many sections … Continue reading
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Tagged differential calculus, IBL, inverted classroom, online, resources, technology
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Active Calculus is not like the NSA
So there’s a new brand of e-book out there, and it has an NSA-like flavor: an e-reader that tracks what students have read. From a recent NYT article, “They know when students are skipping pages, failing to highlight significant passages, … Continue reading
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From fall to winter, from differential to integral: news and updates
So things have been pretty quiet here on my blog since early in fall term. While there are all of the usual reasons for being busy, the main source of my nonposting has been that I’ve tried to devote much … Continue reading
Is Calculus MOOCable?
There’s been lots of discussion in higher education regarding the emergence of MOOCs: Massively Open Online Courses. These courses are free to anyone interested and are taken in an entirely online format; they are typically taught by well-known professors from … Continue reading
Existing Free (or Very Low Cost) Calculus Texts
One of the overwhelming things about the Internet (to me, at least) is just trying to keep track of what’s out there. With this post, I invite readers to contribute to a list of free (and where fitting, open) calculus … Continue reading
A different challenge to publishers
From Insider Higher Ed, an interesting article on the startup “Boundless Learning”, which endeavors to provide text-like materials to students free of charge. “It does so, essentially, through reverse engineering — identifying widely used textbooks in certain fields (three last … Continue reading
The cost of calculus texts
As fall semester begins and students return to campus, I can’t help but reflect on the cost of textbooks, and challenge myself to think about how this affects my students and me. Data from the Conference Board of Mathematical Sciences … Continue reading
Initial Public Offering: Differential Calculus
[Update in January 2013: in addition to an updated version of the differential portion of the text, I’m pleased to publicly share four additional chapters for integral calculus. See the download page at my GVSU site and/or this post here … Continue reading
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Open Textbooks
At Mathfest, I had the pleasure of meeting Rob Beezer and having some extended conversation with him. Rob is a longtime proponent of free and open textbooks, as well as the author of one himself. After my talk he said … Continue reading
“The limiting resource should not be access, but rather time and talent”
On Saturday morning in Madison at Mathfest, I attended a fantastic talk by Robert Ghrist, titled “Putting Topology to Work”. He has apparently given versions of this lecture in several other locations, including the Young Mathematicians’ Conference at Ohio State; … Continue reading
