While browsing the JEM network, I found an announcement of the JEM Seminar “Community Interaction and Gain using mathematical eLearning material”. The workshop aims at gathering developers throughout JEM to guide through Web2.0 tools and services, which support the interaction between students, eLearning tool creators, as well as teaching staff.
panta rhei facilitates the collaboration and interaction between professor, TAs, and students; while at the same time presenting semantically enriched content and supporting annotation as well as rating of content. In consequence, this workshop will be a great opportunity to gain an overview on other implementation as well as feedback on the system.
I went to the organizer’s web page (Julika Mimkes), who is the project manager of the Institute for Science Networking Oldenburg GmbH . In particular, her work in the project “physik multimedia” has raised my interest, since it addresses the teaching of physics to biologist and therefore overlaps with my personal research goal:
I am analyzing mathematical practice. In particular, I am interested in how different research areas do and use mathematics. Based on that, I am hoping to develop a method (and improve my system) in order to allow new students (with different background, from different countries) to adopt to the math in a specific lecture. I am therefore extremely keen on learning more about the results of the “physics multimedia” project and will try to get in contact with Julika Mimkes, if possible, inviting her to one of our KWARC meetings.