Electronic Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

Orlando, Florida, March 16-19, 2006

Paper S073

This is an electronic reprint, reproduced by permission of Pearson Education Inc. Originally appeared in the Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, Edited by Joanne Foster, ISBN 0-321-49160-2, Copyright (C) 2007 by Pearson Education, Inc.


Outsourcing Instruction: The Threat and Promise of Intelligent Math Software

John C. Miller


The City College of C.U.N.Y.
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#14C
New York, NY 10024
USA


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ABSTRACT

Secondary mathematics instruction costs about $50 billion annually worldwide, mostly for salaries. Self-paced, intelligent, interactive, multi-media, multi-language instructional software supporting individual needs will inevitably improve and proliferate. Math faculty will face difficult moral and political choices when confronting provably more effective instructional software.

Keyword(s): software