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Authoring Effective Homework Problems with WeBWorK

Davide Cervone, Gavin LaRose, Paul Pearson, and John Travis
June 3, 10, 17, and 24, 2013
Online

Registration Fee: Registration Fee: $150 ($225 for registrations received after April 22, 2013)

WeBWorK is an open source, web-based homework delivery system designed to make homework more effective and efficient for students of mathematics and the sciences. It has been used for over 15 years by hundreds of professors and in a wide variety of instructional environments. Participants in this PREP workshop will develop the technical skills necessary to identify, edit and create high-quality WeBWorK problems. These skills will be cultivated through a series of four interactive web conferences and concurrent online group work. Participants will be challenged to formulate problems so that they not only validate skills but also foster learning. Design tips for enhancing problem presentation will be proposed. An additional preparatory web conference will be scheduled to provide an overview of the WeBWorK interface for participants with no prior experience. Participants will become active in the greater WeBWorK community and make their own contributions to the WeBWork Open Problem Library.

Partial funding is provided by NSF DUE-0920341.

Questions about PREP? Contact Olga Dixon at 202-319-8498 or odixon@maa.org.

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