Jim Fowler has been selected to receive the Crestron Summum Bonum Award for Excellence in Teaching for his innovative work with the Calculus One massive open online course (MOOC) running on Coursera and the MOOCulus adaptive learning platform.  Each year, Crestron presents this award to a teacher or professor with a track record of improving student achievement and making a difference in the lives of their students.

Jim is being recognized for his enthusiastic and creative method for teaching calculus, including his use of an adaptive learning platform that he created to help students learn calculus through the completion of exercises and explorations.  The platform, called MOOCulus, uses data-driven feedback from student activity to guide students through the math concepts at whatever rate that student needs.

In addition to the Calculus One course, Fowler has developed and taught Calculus Two: Sequences and Series as an open course for Ohio State.  He is currently developing his third MOOC on multivariable calculus and linear algebra.
Fowler will receive his award during the 5th annual Innovate conference on March 25th, 2014. The president of Crestron will present the award during the “Steal My Idea” component of the conference, where Fowler spoke of MOOCulus last year. After the award presentation, Innovate attendees will be invited to the Social Hour on the 5th floor of the Nationwide & Ohio Farm Bureau 
4-H Center where the conference is being held.

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