Theme of the Project (finishes in October 2008): Promotion of eLearning in Mathematics. Helping teachers with authoring educational material and sharing eLearning resources – e.g. including the dissemination and translation of resources. Targeting to students from secondary school up to Ph.D., teachers, lecturer and all potential users interested in mathematics.
Zsolt Lavicza, University of Cambridge, at the 4th European Workshop on Mathematical & Science eContents; see abstract
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- The system provides statistics on the number of visits and users and includes a questionnaire-based evaluation.
- Speaker was pointing to the “dramatic decline of mathematical knowledge and skill of students entering universities; universities have reacted with mathematical support centres, additional units, reducing the difficulty of the content and focusing on lower level contents
- Speaker claims that we need to change the “classical way” of teaching; e.g. with the following methods: (1) renewal of content, (2) extending the use of computer based methods, (3) collaborative learning
- Renewing content: proper formulation of basic concepts of mathematics; focus on training of logical thinking and appropriate deduction; technical skills
- Computer support: requires a thorough mathematical knowledge to consciously use software, software skills, …
- Several international partners
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