Math 400--Calculus 1: Open for Antiracism (OFAR)
Overview
The Open for Antiracism (OFAR) Program – co-led by CCCOER and College of the Canyons – emerged as a response to the growing awareness of structural racism in our educational systems and the realization that adoption of open educational resources (OER) and open pedagogy could be transformative at institutions seeking to improve. The program is designed to give participants a workshop experience where they can better understand anti-racist teaching and how the use of OER and open pedagogy can empower them to involve students in the co-creation of an anti-racist classroom. The capstone project involves developing an action plan for incorporating OER and open pedagogy into a course being taught in the spring semester. OFAR participants are invited to remix this template to design and share their projects and plans for moving this work forward.
Course Description
- Overview:
- This is a rigorous, open, and equitable Calculus I class. It follows the OpenStax Calculus I book and uses the MyOpenMath course created by Larry Green and the ZTC grant as homework and extra resources. As well as lecture notes and worksheets created in Microsoft Word.
The structure of the course is that it follows a flipped class model, where students are required to watch lecture video created off of the lecture notes. Then students work on sectional exercises embedded in Canvas from MyOpenMath and work by themselves on the hard worksheet before the last day of the class during the week. On that day of class students will have the opportunity to work in groups on the worksheet problems.
They will be motivated to work on the problems in their groups because they will then teach the professor their random problem received as well as their group mates have points associated with their group mates work. The way they do this is through a program called GoReact that is embedded in Canvas. The main thing about this program is that students can easily share a recorded video of them teaching the math to the professor and the professor in turn can give video feedback telling the student how much they rock or letting them know what went wrong. These Teach Me Video are the foundation of the course and are the only thing the professor grades for the week unless there is a test. They are fun for both the instructor and students and increase the teacher student relationship as well as the student to student relationship. It is also easy to bump the Teach Me Videos up to make students who didn't fully understand the problem by making them redo the video to get some points back.
- Subject:
- Mathematics, Calculus
- Level:
- Community College / Lower Division
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab, Assessment, Full Course, Homework/Assignment, Lecture, Lecture Notes, Lesson, Lesson Plan, Module, Textbook
- Syllabus and Course Information:
- The syllabus is all of module 0 in Canvas Commons, the reason I did this is so I have a living syllabus that I can change and add to within Canvas.
- Here is a link to my Canvas Commons Class: https://lor.instructure.com/resources/dfb7b57a4a7e4f3181a6fa75a9d279e3?shared
- Author:
- Andreas Bazos, MyOpenMath, OpenStax, ZTC Grant
Action Plan
- This is a full OER Calculus 1 course, that uses Lecture Notes with Video Solutions, Links to the OpenStax book, MyOpenMath assignments, and worksheets, where the students will be required to Teach the instructor a problem through a video recording software called GoReact. The Teach Me Videos that my students made for me are the biggest anti-racist part of this course as I am getting to know each and every one of my students and their mathematical abilities as much as I can.
Here is a link to my reflection on the changes I made to the course to be antiracist: - https://lrccd.zoom.us/rec/share/N_6iYEChEpnT3Ix5dBtlRFYnKitWmFnH-3uk_XrhsLO3RH4VYHG1cbozNGm0T4y5.uL7gemNk4eeeGGYq
The Teach Me Videos work very well, and you can even get your students to redo them to some of the missed points back. The Create Your Own Teach Me Videos did not work as well as I wanted but that was because I didn't control this enough.
Anti-Racist Assignment / Module
The anti-racist assignment that I created is at the end of Module 13 and asks students to find mathematicians from underrepresented groups.
Here is a link to my Canvas Commons Class: https://lor.instructure.com/resources/dfb7b57a4a7e4f3181a6fa75a9d279e3?shared