Pathways Summer Institute

This week, over 100 faculty (along with over 20 administrators and 20 institutional researchers) met in Palo Alto (California) for the Quantway™ and Statway™ “Summer Institute”.

These “pathways” are being developed under the coordination of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (see http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/developmental-math for more details).  AMATYC is a partner in this work.

I see two exciting parts of this work.  First of all, the Carnegie Foundation thinks it is important to have official AMATYC involvement in this work; this allows two of us (Julie Phelps of Florida, and me … Michigan) to be engaged at a deep level in the work.  Both of us were part of the Summer Institute, and have been involved with the planning for it as well, along with work on the actual instructional material.

The instructional materials are the other exciting part of this work.  This is due to multiple factors … the materials are being developed by the Dana Center (see http://www.utdanacenter.org/), known for its quality work in this area.  Another factor is the fantastic fact that the materials will be open resources in 2012, under a “Creative Commons License” which allows general use with source credits.  The materials will include an online homework system of high sophistication.

We also have considerable synergy between the work of the Pathways and the New Life project (AMATYC Developmental Mathematics Committee).  This synergy can be seen in the high degree of agreement between the learning outcomes used in both projects, as well as the multiple people engaged with both projects.

The Pathways are a very sophisticated solution which addresses several needs and problems in developmental mathematics.  I encourage you to become familiar with the work of the Pathways … we live in the best time for developmental mathematics in recent memory.

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