Case Studies
Delaware Technical and Community College
In spring 2001 Delaware Technical & Community College needed an online Math 100–level course created in ten weeks. Instructor Darlene Winnington made it happen—by using MyMathLab. Today, the college and its administration are so pleased with MML, the product
has since evolved from use strictly in online courses to use in the institution’s campus-based, basic math course, which has a lecture/lab setting.
Instructors can now spend less time on administrative tasks and more time focusing on student needs. Students welcome the option of using resources outside of class. They appreciate the extra help and flexibility that a Web-based format affords. One important benefit is the instantaneous feedback that MML provides. Students who get a problem wrong are offered a resource that can help them find out why, redo it, and get it right. This keeps students from quitting. “For the first time, I’m seeing my students take responsibility for their
own learning,” says Winnington. “They’re learning how to learn.”
Winnington also reports that with MyMathLab, participation in class has increased, homework completion has increased, and pass rates have skyrocketed. Her first semester using MML in Basic Math resulted in a pass rate of 84 percent—up from 40 percent the semester before without MML. She couldn’t be more satisfied. This fall, she’s offering another lecture/lab format with MML, noting with pleasure, “The students asked for it.”
