Enhancing a Math for General Education Online Course

Abstract

The University of Central Oklahoma Math for General Education online course is geared towards students who are not required to take a math course above the College Algebra level. Our goal was to tailor questions in this course to those that the students will see in their future careers. Some of these students will be taking the OGET or other licensing exams that require basic math skills, so we created some questions similar to the ones on those exams. We will show our approach for discovering the academic majors of the students who will be taking this course, the math skills needed for these students’ potential careers and the method in which we created questions designed specifically for this course.