Some courses are taught entirely in a computer lab setting where students work through prepared live texts or notebooks. Other courses are a combination of traditional classroom lectures and computer lab asssignments or experiments. Basic algebra precalculus, calculus, differential equations, statistics, modeling and other applied mathematics can all be taught in the context of a computer lab. This relatively recent change in the way mathematics is presented to students involves many choices and decisions on the part of faculty and support staff. I am interested in engaging in a discussion on this rather broad topic to learn what choices other schools have made in the development, use and management of computer labs.
Some schools are very selective about which courses use computer labs.
Others provide labs for general use by all students. The decision on which courses to offer in a laboratory setting is usually a local one. Many schools charge students fees in varying degrees. The NSF has several programs of potential interest. There were 1,591 proposals submitted and 484 awards were made.