Penn Professor's Free Online Calculus Course Will Earn Students Credits

Calculus: Single Variable, an online Coursera course taught by Andrea Mitchell University Professor Robert Ghrist, has been recognized by the American Council on Education (ACE). Similar to advanced placement credit, this potentially would allow hundreds of institutions to award credits to students completing the course.

The class builds upon high school level knowledge of calculus, using hand-drawn graphics and animations in emphasizing conceptual understanding and applications.

"ACE credit recommendations will allow us to reward students for all the hard work that they are already doing," Ghrist said. "These students are working as hard as they can to learn this difficult material, while we are working as hard as we can to teach it, so, in the end, everyone will benefit."

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