Speaker
- Vilma Mesa (University of Michigan)
Details
In this interactive presentation I will present a preliminary analysis of various artifacts associated with ‘lecture notes’ submitted by participants in a large-scale study of three textbooks written in PreTeXt, Active Calculus by Matt Boelkins, A First Course in Linear Algebra by Robert Beezer, and Abstract Algebra Theory and Applications by Tom Judson. For this analysis, I have provisionally defined lecture notes as a document produced with the goal of teaching a lesson for a specific topic. In the analysis we attend to the constitution of the lecture notes (the dynamic process of generating them and context) and their structure (nature of resources, roles, and relationships), paying attention to how textbooks mediate this work. While there are variations, there are many similarities across the participants, revealing that producing lecture notes is in itself a professional development activity through which the instructors acquire new knowledge, skills, and practices, even when those are not consciously recognized. Participants will be asked to think about and share their own process of lecture notes production.
