Faculty Spotlight

Paul Golisch, Adjunct Math Faculty & Dean of Information Technology

Paul has developed OER versions of two courses and is working on a third. All resources in his classes are free and readily available to any student or instructor who would like to use them. Paul is also using the Flipped Classroom concept in all three of the courses he is teaching.  For more information on this topic, please click here.

Currently, he uses Google Sites to host the courses, but plans to move them to a Canvas environment in 2013. Problem sets and videos from the popular Khan Academy web site are the primary resources his students use. For each unit, he also provides links to videos created by James Sousa, math faculty at Phoenix College and online textbooks developed through the Connexions project at Rice University.

Most of Paul's students use all four of these resources at some point throughout the course. Another adjunct instructor, Kristi Hurlburt, is working with Paul to improve the courses and provide additional resources. Kristi is currently teaching the OER version of the 082 class.

Here is a link to his courses:

Math 082 Arithmetic- https://sites.google.com/site/pvccmath082/

Math 092 Introductory Algebra- https://sites.google.com/site/pvccmath092/

Paul welcomes feedback on the courses at paul.golisch@pvmail.maricopa.edu