An instructional design process for undergraduate mathematics curriculum online

This paper presents an instructional development analysis for a lesson of an intended Calculus course at a state-supported multi-campus institution of higher learning in the southeastern United States. The lesson chosen addresses the topic of continuity of functions at a point. The development of the lesson is made by conducting a learner and needs analysis as well as a task analysis specific to the lesson chosen. Performance objectives and learning outcomes are discussed in detail as well as their alignment with each other and the overall instructional goals. Detailed events of instruction are also presented, and plans for formative and summative evaluation of both learner performance and the lesson developed are being discussed. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).