Calculus: Online and Interactive
Workshop Abstract

This workshop is part of the Mathematical Association of America PREP Workshop Program for Summer 2008. It will be held online June 16-20, 2008. The workshop is designed to acquaint participants with an online interactive calculus textbook being developed by the organizers as part of the NSF-funded MAA project, MathDL Books Online, NSF Grant DUE-231083.

The online text is a second edition of a book published as Calculus: Modeling and Application. You can view the text at www.math.duke.edu/education/calculustext/.

A one-variable calculus course based on this textbook has been offered at Hood College (Frederick, MD) since Fall 2006. The workshop will be valuable for anyone interested in using online interactive materials for a calculus course, but we also hope to recruit some workshop participants to site-test the materials at their home institutions. Thus we encourage teams from one school or neighboring schools to apply. All members of a team should be in the same physical location during the workshop.

In addition to a reasonably up-to-date computer with a fast internet connection, each participant will need to have access to headphones, a microphone, and, if desired, a web camera.

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Revised 6/12/08