Implementing Mathematics Courseware through Collaborative Course Redesign for Student Success

Gateway courses are typically at the first-year or introductory level and include those without which students cannot proceed to higher-level courses within their major. They are typically high-enrollment, general-education courses in disciplines like mathematics with higher rates of withdrawals or grades of D or F. Because mathematics is usually a general education requirement in college, these disparities are pronounced regardless of the student’s major. This service focuses on a collaborative, team-based approach to mathematics course redesign that incorporates math courseware. In any learning modality,  in-person, online, or hybrid, such courseware is used to help students review, practice, and remediate in targeted areas where they need the most help. This series enables instructors, department leadership, and other administrators to select high-quality math courseware and pair it with evidence-based instructional practices. Through a series of targeted exercises, participants will also learn to leverage data from courseware and other digital tools to personalize the support they give to students.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the importance of implementing a collaborative, team-based approach to mathematics course redesign for student success
• Understand how math courseware, evidence-based instructional practices, and applications of student data can be combined to improve the quality of teaching and learning and increase student success outcomes in gateway math courses
• Receive expert guidance on how to effectively identify, evaluate, and integrate high-quality math courseware for a gateway math course redesign
• Build critical relationships and community within your department and institution that will support a scalable, collaborative, team-based approach to redesigning a gateway math course
• Identify and use data collection tools and key data points that will support your use of math courseware and student learning analytics

Service Deliverables

• Establish a collaborative, cross-functional institution team consisting of faculty, administrators, and staff to adopt mathematics courseware and implement a course redesign initiative
• Evaluate and select high-quality math courseware for implementation in a gateway course
  • For those already using a courseware product, complete a collaborative assessment process to confirm chosen courseware is the best fit for faculty team and department
• Create a team-based action plan to redesign a target gateway math course that
  • • integrates high-quality math courseware
    • identifies an approach to using student learning data to drive instructional practices and student supports
    • outlines a process to test and refine evidence-based instructional interventions
    • is ready to implement in the following academic term

Service Duration

This service is designed as a 12 or 16 week  engagement, depending on institutional or cohort needs and capacities. This service may also be offered as an intensive, two-day, in-person “boot-camp” for institutions or cohorts.

Contact Hours

Five 90-minute synchronous, online workshops for the institutional team and four total 60-minute coaching sessions

Capacity

As designed, this service can accommodate up to five teams simultaneously. For each institutional team, there should be a minimum of four participants. We recommend no more than 8 participants per team. Intermediaries interested in serving more than five institutions may inquire.