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Course Organization: This Intermediate Algebra course has been implemented for those students, who for reasons of work, family responsibilities, access difficulties, or residence location, find it impossible to take this class physically on campus. It has been designed and optimized for online delivery, and while lecture material, homework assignments and tests are entirely via the Internet, a weekly optional "Discussion Session" with the instructor is offered to reinforce fundamental concepts, correctness of mathematical procedures and solving techniques. Due to limited number of seats in the computer classroom (1307), only 28 students can be enrolled in the hybrid version of this course. The 60 minutes "Discussion Sessions" are scheduled for every Friday of the semester from 11:00am to 12:00pm. The student's active participation during these sessions will grant extra credit points to be considered in the final grade calculation for the course. The average student is expected to devote a minimum of 9 hours per week to complete this course succesfully. These include about three hours per week studying the material delivered in the online lectures (equivalent to classroom lectures) and about six hours per week of practice exercises and homework. The student attendance is defined as regular weekly on-line work within the WebCT course environment. It is very important for the student to maintain a constant pace on learning the concepts and exercising the acquired knowledge. The lessons, assignments and evaluations have been designed and scheduled to enforce a gradual, consistent progress. A student who has not interacted in the course by the fifth day of class will be dropped for non-attendance. A student who has not interacted in the course for more than seven days runs the risk of failing the class for non-attendance.
Explicit directions on what material should be covered, and the homework to
be submitted is given regularly twice per week: every Monday and Thursday.
The course must be completed within the duration of a semester. The lecture material is delivered in seven main "Modules", subdivided in Units. 
The lecture material is available through links to the different content Units as the semester progresses. The on-line lectures contain all the course topics the student needs to learn and include interactive step by step problem solving to help with the understanding of the different mathematical techniques. It is strongly suggested that the student prints the on-line Lessons to have a printed copy of the covered materials for future reference. There are "Extended examples" within each Lesson, which interactively guide the student through the techniques of problem solving. These are intended to prepare the student for the homework assignments to be completed and submitted on-line, and which are graded. |
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This information is presented in the "Homepage" of the course, which is the
first page accessed when the student logs in his/her WebCT course account.
The directions include: A Message Box where the important messages and news
for the course are given, followed by the detailed Instructions
on what work is expected
from the student for the next few days. Since
the Homepage is updated twice per week (Mondays and Thursdays), the student must
connect regularly to the course so as not to miss any instruction. The overall
schedule of Lessons, homework and test release will be available to the student
through a link from the homepage entitled: "Calendar".