Electronic Proceedings of the Twenty-first Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

New Orleans, Louisiana, March 12-15, 2009

Paper S026

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Online Calculus - Content, Tools, and Methods

Olga Caprotti

University of Helsinki
Finland

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Matti Pauna

University of Helsinki
Finland

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Mika Seppälä

University of Helsinki
Finland

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ABSTRACT

We present a purely online single-variable calculus course. We discuss its methodological and pedagogical design as a case study. The choice of formats of materials, interactive tools, and platforms from a wide variety of new Web technologies is considered from the pedagogical point of view.

Keyword(s): calculus, pedagogy