Facing challenges in remote mathematics education and support by building a community of practice around student-staff partnership

Casey, Dierdre, Fairclough, Isabella, Perisic, Vesna, Carey, William and Smith, Ann (2022) Facing challenges in remote mathematics education and support by building a community of practice around student-staff partnership. In MSOR Connections: Conference Special Issue 1: Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. vol. 20, 102 - 110 . (doi:10.21100/msor.v20i1).

Abstract

Our active community of practice, developed from a weekly book club, formed through a shared interest in student-centred learning. Inspired by the book The Power of Partnership, this interdisciplinary group fostered and nurtured two practical mathematical applications through a partnership approach. In Munster Technological University academic support, including Mathematics and Statistics support, is offered to students through the Academic Learning Centre (ALC). Project 1 explored, through student-staff partnership, how best to promote the ALC. The project challenged our assumptions of how students would like to interact with the service. Project 2 focused on teaching mathematical analysis to a large cohort of year two students at the University of Southampton during the Covid-19 pandemic, elaborating on how small study groups, facilitated by student partners, were utilised to maintain a sense of connection and belonging, when possibilities for in-person teaching were extremely reduced. This paper discusses how a dispersed community of practice collaborated to enhance learning and teaching of mathematics.

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