Daily advances in technology are restructuring the way we live, work, learn and interact. The rap... more Daily advances in technology are restructuring the way we live, work, learn and interact. The rapid development of synchronous online venues available to distance education has lead to a heightened need for theory & practice in the effective use of these collaborative learning live venues. This paper is directed to faculty members who are already teaching synchronously online or who would like to start teaching synchronously online. It provides best practices, ideas, tips and tricks, and insights to foster successful learning experiences online and ways to think about online synchronous teaching differently than as a mere replicate of traditional campus-based instructional activities.
Mathematics is known to be an abstract and challenging subject area to study and learn by student... more Mathematics is known to be an abstract and challenging subject area to study and learn by students in higher education. During the autumn of the 2009-10 academic year, I taught two sections of linear algebra to engineering students at a private higher education institution – University A, located in Louaize, Lebanon, and two sections of calculus to biology and pre-med students at another private higher education institution – University B, located in Byblos, Lebanon. I was approached many times by my students asking me about the use of matrices in real-life. Contextual mathematics is an area of mathematics teaching and learning through which researchers and educators believe that mathematics is better taught, and learned, if connected to reallife situations and problems. It is also very helpful if it makes sense in the students’ world. Thus, I decided to start a project by creating a blog, and gave a 5-point grade as an incentive for students to get involved in that project at Unive...
International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research, 2015
This paper evaluates the implementation of technology blended teaching and learning in the Founda... more This paper evaluates the implementation of technology blended teaching and learning in the Foundation Mathematics Program at a private college of higher education in Kuwait with a view to identifying improvements in student performance. The traditional classroom teaching was blended with a significant component of online learning with MML (MyMathLab), involving in-class tutorials and outside of class online activities. The aim of introducing this approach was largely to achieve a greater level of engagement with the course content and to increase the amount of practice time students devoted to doing problem solving exercises. The study used data generated by the MML tools as well as data on success rates from previous semesters when only the traditional approaches were used for teaching and learning in the Foundation Program. The study found that there was an increase of between 12% and 35% in the normal expected time required for problem-solving practice with the MML system. The gr...
The Social Arena of of the Online Synchronous Environment
Daily advances in technology are restructuring the way we live, work, learn and interact. The rap... more Daily advances in technology are restructuring the way we live, work, learn and interact. The rapid development of synchronous online venues available to distance education has lead to a heightened need for theory & practice in the effective use of these collaborative learning live venues. This paper is directed to faculty members who are already teaching synchronously online or who would like to start teaching synchronously online. It provides best practices, ideas, tips and tricks, and insights to foster successful learning experiences online and ways to think about online synchronous teaching differently than as a mere replicate of traditional campus-based instructional activities.
The support experienced by faculty in technology implementation in higher education in Lebanon and the role of faculty professional development in its use
Blogging and the Learning of Linear Algebra Concepts through Contextual Mathematics
Mathematics Teaching, Nov 1, 2011
Blogging and the Learning of Linear Algebra Concepts through Contextual Mathematics
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