Speaker
- Robin Pemantle (University of Pennsylvania)
Details
The long term success of a new course depends on a lot of factors: personnel to teach the course, student incentives to take the course and learning goals (careful, different interested parties are likely to see these differently). I will tell some stories of course development spanning courses for pre-service teachers, calculus courses, and graduate level applied mathematics. Questions that will arise include whether to tweak an existing course versus re-invent from scratch and what pedagogies to build into the course. For clarity on the issue of pedagogy, one needs a solid understanding of the factors above, particularly the learning goals.
