OhioTechNet Innovation Project:      Recovering Lost Learning with Math Navigator

Welcome! The goal of this website is to provide you information you need to support your students using Gooru's FREE Math Navigator to recover and advance their high school level math skills so they can succeed in college as they return to classes after the COVID pandemic.

The Ohio TechNet has partnered with the SkillsCommons-MERLOT team to support your students whose math learning was disrupted during the pandemic. This project focuses on helping students recover and rebuild high school math knowledge as they enter the workplace. We know we still have much to learn, and we are here to collaborate with you to help your students find success at your company.

Gerry HanleyBernie GoskyMaria Fieth

 

Rick Lumadue

Unfinished Learning During the COVID Pandemic:

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many high school graduates and community college students will begin this year without having mastered foundational math concepts. High school seniors are among the many students who have lost learning opportunities and time to practice math skills. Even without a global pandemic, math knowledge and skills often pose major challenges for entry level employees.

What can be done to help student find the learning they need to succeed? 

What if we had a free service that students could use throughout their initial year of employment (and beyond) that provides individualized learning experiences, assessments, and feedback, all delivered on their smartphones?

FREE MATH NAVIGATOR:  AN AFFORDABLE LEARNING SOLUTION!

The Math Navigator is an online, self-directed platform that delivers the learning activities and resources that each unique student needs. 

Math Navigator, already used by millions of students around the world, has been developed by Gooru, an educational non-profit organization and partner of MERLOT and SkillsCommons for the past 3 years.

You can explore Math Navigator for free at https://gooru.org/about/navigator/math-navigator/.

Real-Time Feedback for Learners: Learners get real-time feedback to promote agency and self-monitoring in order to optimize growth. In addition, learners have access to dynamic reports to track their own learning.   

Evidence of Success: Review the research on successful learning outcomes among students using Math Navigator.

Explore Various Gooru Navigator Tools:

• Navigator for Learners: 
• Navigator Mission Control:

Math Navigator is a FREE and OPEN adaptive online platform that provides personalized learning pathways for students to develop their math competencies.   Faculty have FREE access to this platform as well where they have monitor their students' progress.

What does your institution need to do?

• Identify a staff member to be designated as "coordinator" for the Math Navigator project. This person will be responsible for coordinating campus staff and resources to support students using Math Navigator. Coordination includes connecting with:
  • Earn and Learn Program:   For those students who did not pass the math competencies to progress into the program, you can request that they complete the Math Navigator to refresh and relearn the math skills they need to enter the Earn and Learn Program.
  • First-year experience and/or orientation staff who can include reminders to use Math Navigator.
  • Learning Assistance Center or existing organizations currently used to support student academic success.
• Design an outreach campaign for your incoming first-year students that acknowledges that your institution will provide free and open access to an easy-to-use mobile app that will help them refresh, recover, and retain high school math skills.
• Send regular notifications and reminders about the importance of students’ progress on Math Navigator.  The Coordinator can view the progress the students are making on Math Navigator and inspire the students to develop their math skills so they can participate in the Earn & Learn Program

You can use the OTN Planning Template to identify the people and tasks that will help you use the Math Navigator.

Want To Learn MORE On How To Adopt Math Navigator?

MERLOT and Math Navigator will conduct webinars to review how your institution can adopt the tool and answer questions.  Math Navigator will dedicate support services to HBCUs participating in this program.

Getting Started - IT IS EASY!

• Email Priti Agarwal (priti@gooru.org) indicating your institution would like to participate in the HBCU Math Navigator project.

  Then, Gooru will design a campus-specific portal for your students that walk them through signing up and getting started on Math Navigator. 

  Additionally, MERLOT and Gooru will conduct webinars to answer questions and review how your institution can adopt Math Navigator. Gooru will dedicate support services to HBCUs participating in this program.

FINAL COMMENT (FOR NOW): We realize you and your colleagues are overwhelmed with many demands from the COVID pandemic to the normal demands of the school year.   The Math Navigator team is here to help. Call on them!

NOT QUITE READY TO DO THIS RIGHT NOW?

Gooru has team members on staff every day of the year. This means you can offer the free and open version of Math Navigator to your students throughout the year, whenever you’re ready.

LOOKING FOR AN INSTIUTIONAL STRATEGY?

If you’d like your institution to have access to data dashboards measuring student performance in Math Navigator, Gooru can provide this for $1 per student per year. With these dashboards, called Mission Control, instructors and administrators can track individual and cohort progress. 

If you are interested in using Math Navigator as an institutional strategy, please contact Priti Agarwal at priti@gooru.org and complete the  Gooru-University Membership MOU _ 2020-04.docx