Supporting HE Mathematics and Statistics teaching

In April 2019 the University of Edinburgh held two one-day meetings to support HE mathematics teaching.

These meetings are supported by an Education Grant from the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), and it is part of the IMA Higher Education Teaching and Learning Series 2018/19.

Day 1: Monday 29th April, 10:00-17:00. Putting educational research into practice in HE Mathematics and Statistics teaching

The purpose of this meeting is to act as a forum for the exchange of experience, ideas and research associated with implementing practice in higher education which arises from previous educational research. The target audience is colleagues who teach undergraduate and postgraduate mathematics, statistics and related courses in HE. We anticipate the outcomes to be a better appreciation of educational research, how this can be used, and greater confidence to implement change in current teaching. Through networking on the day we anticipate an ongoing dialogue between colleagues, particularly junior colleagues, which supports them in evaluating and perhaps changing their own teaching.

• Robert Coe (Director of Research and Development at Evidence-Based Education) Using measurement theory and data analysis to improve the quality of assessment
• Pamela Docherty (School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh) Evidence on lecture recordings in mathematics and physics
• George Kinnear & Richard Gratwick (School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh) Putting educational research into practice in a fully online course
• Carolina Kuepper Tetzel (University of Dundee) Cognitive Science and Mathematics Education
• Toby Bailey (School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh) Seven years of flipping maths
• Matthew Inglis (Loughborough University) How practitioners should use and evaluate education research

Day 2: Tuesday 30th April, 10:00-17:00. International STACK user group meeting

This meeting is both for experienced STACK users, and colleagues interested in starting to use online assessment in mathematics. Supported by our recent Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellent, the meeting will include a practical workshop for new STACK users.

• Antti Rasila: Abacus, its history and future plans
• Morten Brekke: Establishment of a new Norwegian STACK community within MatRIC
• Tim Lowe STACK workshop for new users
• Tim Hunt: A million questions per year: Hosting STACK at the Open University
• Chris Sangwin: How to contribute to the STACK project.
• Ian Jones: Finding the Potential Response Trees in the Potential Response Forest
• Wigand Rathmann, Jesus Copado: Implementing STACK questions concerning integration techniques combined with the usage of STACK in ILIAS
• Tim Lowe. Using STACK at the Open University
• Matti Harjula: Stateful STACK
• Chris Sangwin: What next for STACK?