So far, the best phrasing I've come up with is: What stands in the
way of building and supplying low-cost, high-quality mathematics
education via the internet?
The art of encyclopedia-building doesn't seem to carry over directly
to education. This should be of fairly general concern (the
Dear Joe,
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010, Joe Corneli wrote:
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(a) building interactive textbooks that work for self-guided learners
This sounds like Wikibooks http://en.wikibooks.org
or Wikiversity http://en.wikiversity.org
Although there is not much interaction with the reader unless s/he
Hello Joe,
You are right, a good research question is the most important basis
for a thesis, and that it is why it is so difficult.
From what I see in your mail, a-c is indeed like the three sides of
one and the same thing. What is overtly missing is the agent; who is
supposed to build?
In the
Hi Joe,
These are interesting questions, but I think that it will be hard to
comprehensively address ALL of them simultaneously.
I think the WHO question is foundational. For instance:
(0) How is the current 'teacher' role modified in delivering low-cost
high-quality math education via the
With respect to Wikipedia mathematical articles I find that often simple
mathematical concepts are not explained well. The information is not
wrong, just expressed in professional mathematical jargon. A book like
All the Math You'll Ever Need does much better. Wikipedia editors are
nearly always
Joe,
You might want to look at The Math Forum, http://mathforum.org
In particular, check out the Problem of the Week and Ask Dr. Math.
Answers to Problem of the Week and questions to Ask Dr. Math are
answered by volunteers, who try to guide the students to understanding
rather than
also, www.purplemath.com
the sparknotes math guides
and esp. hotmath.com (which is the closest to what you mean)
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Amy Bruckman
amy.bruck...@cc.gatech.eduwrote:
Joe,
You might want to look at The Math Forum, http://mathforum.org
In particular, check out the
Hi Joe,
Ziko van Dijk asked a very important question:
And what is your faculty? Are you a mathematician, a sociologist?
In general, what is your academic background, and what is your
program, and what is your school? Without background about
