Student perspectives on their engagement with a mathematics support centre website.

Ciarán Mac an Bhaird, Peter Mulligan, James O'Malley

Abstract


In this paper, we focus on survey results of students’ use of a Mathematics Support Centre website. We discuss potential modifications to the advertisement of our online services based on student responses. We also consider the purpose of an MSC website and who should be responsible, in an institution, for the provision of topic specific online resources for students.


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Mathematics support; website; online; resources

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21100/msor.v18i3.1045

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