MERLOT, the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching, announces that the Mathematical Visualization Toolkit -- MVT -- has won highest honors as an online instructional tool.Last week, the Mathematics Editorial Board of MERLOT announced that MVT had won its Classics Award as Editors' Choice Award for Exemplary Online Learning Resource. Fourteen other instructional modules won Classics Awards in subject areas other than mathematics.
This week, MERLOT announced that of the fifteen modules, MVT is receiving the highest honor of Editor's Choice for being an exemplary model FOR ALL DISCIPLINES.
MVT, developed under the auspices of the Department of Applied Mathematics, is a powerful set of tools to graph and illustrate mathematical concepts in calculus and differential equations. Written in Java, it can be downloaded by anybody, for free, from the MVT website, or it can be run directly from a browser. A small but dedicated group of Java coding Applied Math undergraduates developed (and continue to develop) the MVT software, directed by Prof. James Curry and Anne Dougherty.
Representatives of the MVT team are invited to showcase their product at MERLOT's international conference in July, receiving complimentary registration and (cash!) awards. Congratulations to the entire MVT group for their persistence and wonderful achievement!