Teaching STEM Online: Challenges and Solutions

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Abstract: 

There are many challenges involved in creating high-quality learning materials for STEM courses, from display to grading to accessibility, but approaches and solutions exist.

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There are many challenges involved in creating high-quality learning materials for STEM courses, from display to grading to accessibility. This session will discuss the challenges, progress and current technologies. The University of Waterloo has been offering online mathematics courses since 2003 to over 21,000 students and open education resources that have been visited hundreds of thousands of times. Maplesoft is an education solution provider with 30 years of experience helping educators implement technology in their courses. Together they understand the challenges and have made great progress in overcoming a number of them.

Session Sponsor: 
Maplesoft
Conference Session: 
Concurrent Session 11
Session Type: 
Solutions Showcase