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OER Commons Opens the Door to the Best in Open Teaching and Learning
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By MarieMark
Posted Sun Feb 18, 2007 at 07:30:27 AM PDT
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As a recognized leader and innovator in the field of education, you are invited to a new network for teaching and learning called OER Commons (www.oercommons.org). This new web site is created by a recognized leader in educational research and practice - the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME).
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A holy grail of mathematics appears solved
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By Adonis
Posted Tue Dec 19, 2006 at 08:51:52 AM PDT
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A mathematician from Australia's University of Wollongong, Associate Professor Song-Ping Zhu, has cracked a formula that will have important implications for researchers, traders and investors working on the valuation of American-style stock options. One of Professor Zhu's areas of long-term interest has been developing analytical as well as numerical techniques suitable for the options and futures price modelling. Mathematicians worldwide have been working for years to find an exact solution of the Black-Scholes equation for the valuation of American options - many concluded that such a solution did not exist. This conclusion would now appear to be incorrect with Professor Zhu's newly-found exact solution of the Black-Scholes equation for American options. His findings have triggered widespread excitement among his mathematical colleagues who are confident that this longstanding problem has finally been solved. Professor Zhu has now had his journal paper, "An Explicit and Exact Solution of the Value of American Put and its Optimal Exercise Boundary" accepted for publication in the journal, Quantitative Finance.
Release at: http://media.uow.edu.au/releases/2006/0427a.html
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Brown study on attitudes and abilities
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By dkung
from the surprising educational research department
Posted Fri Oct 20, 2006 at 02:24:01 AM PDT
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A new study from the Brookings Institution's Brown Center on Education Policy looks at TIMSS scores (the international math assessment) in various countries and compares them with students' attitudes toward mathematics. The results are a bit surprising...
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Student Evaluations - what's the research say?
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By dkung
Posted Tue Oct 03, 2006 at 10:58:09 AM PDT
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A few years ago we charged a committee to review the literature on student evaluations and make a recommendation to the faculty. The system we had in place involves a standardized form with 12 questions. The first two are the most standard - and the most cited on campus.
1. Rate the instructor's overall teaching effectiveness.
2. Rate the overall quality of this course.
The committee's report came back very different from what I had expected research on evals to show.
More on the flip...
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By Vanes63
Posted Tue Aug 22, 2006 at 01:02:25 PM PDT
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For me, classes start tomorrow; for others, it they may have already started or will be starting in some weeks. What do you think is the best piece of advice you can give someone who is teaching their first class?
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Use of Computers
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By Anonymous Hero
Posted Mon Dec 19, 2005 at 01:42:13 PM PDT
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I'm becoming increasingly concerned about using these online courses with WebCT and was wondering how other people feel. Where I am at, almost all the lower level classes, Calc I, Calc II, and engeneering math are online (WebCT). Here, the exams are 8 multiple choice and usually 4 written questions. The students never see thier online exams, never know what they got wrong, and can never ask us (TA's) for the right answer.
On top of this, the lower level classes get thier homework graded by undergrads, the scores recorded, and then thrown out. So, the students never get thier homework back, never know exactly what they got wrong, etc...
Personally, I really don't think this is appropriate, but this may be how it is everywhere now. It wasn't like this where I got my undergrad. Is this a common practice? Does anyone have any thoughts about this?
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When Technology Attacks
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By overconvergent
Posted Mon Jun 27, 2005 at 07:21:57 AM PDT
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When I last gave a talk the overhead projector was suffering (as was I) from unseasonable hot weather, and it kept breaking down. This made me think about technolog and the problems it causes while teaching.
Here is an article talking about how technology in the classroom can be actively unhelpful.
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