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Development And Assessment
of Digital
Audiovisual YouTube Lectures For
An Engineering Course In Numerical
Methods
Funded since 2001 by National
Science Foundation, an innovative open courseware (http://nm.mathforcollege.com)
has been developed for a comprehensive undergraduate course in Numerical
Methods. The open courseware re sources
enhance instructor preparation and development as well as the student
educational experience by facilitating a hybrid educational approach to the
teaching of Numerical Methods, a pivotal STEM course, via customized textbooks,
adapted course websites, social networking, digital audiovisual lectures,
concept tests, self-assessment of the level of learning via online
multiple-choice question tests and algorithm-based unlimited attempt quizzes,
worksheets in a computational system of choice, and real-life applications based
on the choice of one’s STEM major. The resources have been implemented
successfully at the University of South Florida, Arizona State University, Old
Dominion University, Milwaukee School of Engineering, and Mississippi Valley
State University. With philosophies of open dissemination and pedagogical
neutrality, more than 30 institutions and thousands of individual users have
adopted the resources in an a la carte fashion. In this paper, we discuss the
history, philosophy, development, refinement, assessment process, and future of
the open courseware. The summarized assessment results include those of
comparing several instructional modalities, measuring student learning, effect
of collecting homework for a grade, using online quizzes as a substitute for
grading homework, interpreting summative ratings of the courseware, student
satisfaction, and Google Analytics.
Related Journal Papers
A. Kaw, A. Yalcin, G. Lee-Thomas, D. Nguyen, M. Hess, J.
Eison, R. Pendyala, G. Besterfield, C. Owens, “A Holistic View on History,
Development, Assessment, And Future of an Open Courseware in Numerical Methods”,
ASEE Computers in Education Journal, 2012 (in press).
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