Teaching and assessing mathematics through the medium of a wiki

This is a new way to teach, learn and assess a mathematics module.

Working in small groups, students will put flesh and bones on the skeleton syllabus provided by posting and editing content on a specially-created module wiki. The module credit will be awarded for

• the correctness of the mathematics and relevance to the syllabus,

• the clarity and economy of the proofs and accompanying narrative, and

• the contribution to a reader's understanding using lively explanations, providing context, insight and analogy, constructing examples and counterexamples, and cross-referencing within the module and beyond.

The work will be carried out in eight two-week cycles, with marks awarded and feedback given at the end of each cycle. All the credit will come from the wiki and there will be no final exam.

Read on by clicking a link:

 How the module will operate

 Reading list

 Feedback competition

Support and Contact

To contact me:

• Come to my office (Room B1.23 in the Maths Institute). I am typically in onTuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays in Term 1

• Send me an email <Trevor.Hawkes@warwick.ac.uk> to make an appointment

For comments or questions that might interest others taking this module, I suggest you start a thread on the Module General Discussion Forum.

Assessment

Here is a list of the criteria I shall use for marking

• the group wikis in the first 10 days of each cycle

• the editing of the main module wiki in the final 4 days of each cycle