Active Learning Online: A Panel Discussion

• MAA Connect is home to a variety of resources. If you are not an MAA member, you can join as a guest and then return to this site. Search for Online Teaching and Distance Learning. Among the items you will find there is this very informative document.

• The Chronicle of Higher Education contains an overview of university responses to Covid19 as of March 12, and a set of useful links about feedback and engagement.

Here are a couple of specific university responses:

• The Cal State LA

• Univ of Tennessee

Many past ESME speakers have demonstrated various online teaching techniques. Many have used the Zoom chat feature to gather participant responses. Several of them have used other feedback mechanisms:

• Stan Yoshinobu (24 Sept 2019) used a prepared google doc that participants edited in pairs.

• Matt Boelkins (2 Oct 2018) used PollEverywhere, and provided a lot of examples of online instructional material.

Some links about open educational resources:

• OER Commons
• OASIS
• Open Textbook Library

Here is a reference about online disabilities accomodation

There are many well-developed visualization tools that find natural homes in online education. Here are two:

• https://open.lib.umn.edu/trigonometry/
• http://mathlets.org/