One of my main responsibilities over the past few years has been creating and running the Year 1 course, Fundamentals of Algebra and Calculus.
You can see a demonstration of the course here: https://stack-demo.maths.ed.ac.uk/demo/course/view.php?id=4 (registration required)
Course design and evaluation
This paper summarises both the educational ideas that went into the design of the course, and our evaluation of the impact on students:
- Kinnear, G., Wood, A. K., Gratwick, R. (2021). Designing and evaluating an online course to support transition to university mathematics. International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739X.2021.1962554
This paper records some of the more detailed design choices, illustrated with examples of STACK questions from the course:
- Kinnear, G. (2019). Delivering an online course using STACK. Contributions to the 1st International STACK conference 2018. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2565969
“Textbook in the quiz”
A idea of the design is to use a series of quizzes to deliver all of the course materials. I discuss this in the following talk and paper:
- Kinnear, G. (2020, June 2). Using quizzes to deliver a course online [Conference presentation]. Teaching and Learning Mathematics Online. Slides (PDF, 3MB) Recording on YouTube
- Sangwin, C. J., Kinnear, G. (2020). Coherently Organised Digital Exercises and Expositions. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/jhngw
Blog posts
You can see blog posts related to the course here:
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/georgekinnear/category/teaching/fac/
