Course
Overview
The vast majority of the course content
will be learned as you interact with the Interactive Mathematics courseware.
The Personal Academic Notebook (PAN), containing CDs, the Internet Client Software
and validation disk, is purchased at the bookstore. You will be asked for
the validation disk three weeks into the semester, so put it in a safe
place. (If you lose your validation disk you will be required to purchase it
again) The course is structured so that
you may work at a pace that is faster (but not slower) than that required
by scheduled examination dates. Students are evaluated on content through
online quizzes, approximately five written tests and a comprehensive final
exam. The tests and the final
exam will be proctored at a predetermined location, usually on our main
campus. Students will also be evaluated
on the quality of their online interactions with their peers and the instructor.
Even though you will not have day
to day physical contact with your instructor or your classmates, you will
be expected to interact with them via
Blackboard, where your
instructor will provide instructional, administrative and management details for
the class. You will be responsible for monitoring
your email on a daily basis, so you can receive and respond to all messages
sent by your instructor or classmates. The class list with the email
addresses of each student will be available only to the members of the
class and a few other instructors and/or tutors from the Mathematics Department.
Out
of Area Students: If you are living
outside the St. Louis metropolitan area you will have to contact the Meramec
campus bookstore at (314) 984-7660 to arrange for payment and delivery of course
material. If you are going to be working outside of the area, you
will need to supply your instructor with your mailing address, and you also need
to find a contact person at a local college to proctor the exams. You
should start with the Mathematics department at a local college, and they may
direct you to the school's assessment center. If you do not have a local
college, you may be able to find someone at a local high school. Supply your
instructor with the person's name, their school name and department, their
phone, regular address and e-mail address . Your instructor will then make
the necessary arrangements with the proctor.
Contacting
Your Instructor
As soon as you are enrolled in one
of the Online Algebra sections, you must contact
your instructor by email. Include your name, the course
and section in which you are enrolled and the email address you will be
using for correspondence during the course.
For information about your instructor, go to the Mathematics
Department Web site:
http://www.stlcc.edu/mc/dept/math/faculty.htm
and link to your instructor's webpage.
Summer 2009 Instructors
Intermediate Algebra
MTH:140 Section 674 CRN:
20183 jelliott@stlcc.edu (John
Elliott)
MTH:140 Section 675 CRN: 21860
kballard@stlcc.edu (Kelly Ballard)
College Algebra
MTH:160C Section 674 CRN:
20655 bkurt@stlcc.edu
(Barbara Kurt)
MTH:160C Section 675 CRN: 21330
jfrost@stlcc.edu
(James Frost)
Spring 2009 Instructors
Intermediate Algebra
MTH:140 Section 674 CRN:
30437
kballard@stlcc.edu (Kelly Ballard)
MTH:140 Section 675 CRN: 30439 csstocker@stlcc.edu (Connie Stocker)
MTH:140 Section 676 CRN:
35594 jfrost@stlcc.edu (James
Frost)
[This is a late start section]
College Algebra
MTH:160C Section 674 CRN:
32364 aspeegle@stlcc.edu
(Aletta Speegle)
MTH:160C Section 675 CRN: 32952
ngwilson@stlcc.edu (Nathan Wilson)
MTH:160C Section 676 CRN:
***** bkurt@stlcc.edu (Barbara Kurt)
[This is a late start section]
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System
Requirements
Note that the two
courses are different!
Intermediate Algebra Minimum system requirements: Windows Vista (with 1 GHz processor or faster, 512
MB RAM, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher) or Windows XP or 2000
Professional with SP4 (both must have 500 MHz processor or faster, 256 MB RAM,
Windows Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher). The courseware must be purchased
through the Meramec campus bookstore. The program may run on Macintosh computers running Firefox. Please note
that this is not supported by the company (i.e. tech support will not help with
problems on a Mac) College Algebra Minimum system requirements: Windows Vista (with 1 GHz processor or faster, 512
MB RAM, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher) or Windows XP or 2000
Professional with SP4 (both must have 500 MHz processor or faster, 256 MB RAM,
Windows Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher). The courseware must be purchased
through the Meramec Campus Bookstore. The Interactive Math software is currently
not available for Macintosh computers.
NOTE: If you are installing the software at
you place of work, firewall security measures may prevent you from accessing the
Academic Systems software from that location.
Personal
Computer Skills
Check
out your personal computer skills.
a) Do
you know how to access and navigate through a website?
b) Can/will
you go to and use a help menu to learn more about the
features of a software package?
c) Are
you willing to try out all features of a program to discover
all it has to offer?
d)
Can you make a short cut on your desktop?
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Learning
Skills
a) Are
you an independent learner? Can you discipline yourself to
learn by following written instructions, rereading
whenever
necessary?
b) How
are your reading skills? The software that delivers the
course requires that you do most of your learning
by reading
and understanding the procedures that are described.
The
program does have audio with it, but your reading
skills
(especially comprehension) must be very good.
c) Are
you able to establish and stick with a schedule? You must
be self motivated and self disciplined enough
to work on your
own. Since you will not be required to attend a
regular class, it
is up to you to set up your own schedule of study
and then
abide by it without being prodded by someone else.
d) Can
you recognize when you need “human” assistance and seek
out help from the multitude of resources the college
has to offer
you? If you are working away from our campus,
do you have
resource people available to you?
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