Scientific Programme
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Invited plenary speakers
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Paper presentations
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Computer workshops (demonstrations and hands-on)
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Poster presentations
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Sponsor exhibitions
Keynote speakers
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E-teaching mathematics in the UNED
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UNED is a distance learning university depending on the central government
of Spain and providing traditional degrees and also mathematical studies
from 1975. The teaching system of UNED is based on special designed texts
and tutorial advice given on local centres or from the central site in
Madrid. In the evaluation it is essential the presence of the student in a
local centre in order to make a written test. This method of teaching has a
very great success and at the moment is the University with greater number
of students in mathematics in Spain and offers from grade studies to PhDs.
The aim of this talk is to present the adaptation of the UNED teaching
system to the e-learning technologies. In this adaptation it is important
to maintain the freedom in the study, one of the main reasons for the
success of UNED. At the moment we are using the platform WebCT. UNED is
also developing his own platform that we shall describe. The courses
include working-plans, texts, computer laboratories, talked lessons,
registered video conferences, evaluation tests, communications media…One
of the tools with better results is the forum, where the number of
participations is so high in some subject that force to the University to
engage more teachers in order to attend all the consults.
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Open Source and Online Collaboration: The Case of GeoGebra
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Open source software, wikis and forums are key elements of today's Internet.
These tools emphasize and encourage online collaboration as well as sharing
ideas and materials. GeoGebra is free open-source software for mathematics
teaching and learning that integrates dynamic geometry and algebra features
in a single easy-to-use software environment. Its pool of free interactive
materials and user forum are examples of online collaboration of a
world-wide community of mathematics educators. In this presentation, I will
outline the emergence of the software GeoGebra and the recent developments
and plans for establishing an International GeoGebra Institute to provide
training and support for teachers and to coordinate research in relation to
GeoGebra.
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What educational research can offer to the enhancement of technology use in
mathematics teaching and learning
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I will describe what mathematics education researchers do, what methods and
theories apply in their work and how research could be used by mathematics
teachers/lecturers. Educational research is often neglected and I will
explore reasons why this is so. This will form a background to looking
forward, to how education researchers and mathematics teachers/lecturers
can work together. I will provide some examples of educational research
carried out on the use of technology in mathematics classrooms and highlight
possible opportunities for collaboration across communities.
Slides from Monaghan's presentation
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Learn and play with Maths
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Mathematics on-line can be an adventure, unusual aesthetic experience, an
unexpected enjoyment and pleasure. Having doubts how to discover these
unknown hidden beauties of mathematical structures? Let us speak together
about new trends in mathematical and scientific e-learning, about
introducing virtual solutions for mathematics and science education, and
about practical usage of MathML coding in producing e-learning materials,
viewable text files with mathematical e-content and on-line presentations,
and about mathematical scientific papers development.
Recently, mathematics is one of those disciplines that fully enjoy and
utilise the extreme power of computers not only in connection to multiple
calculations, searching, data-mining and e-contents processing, but also as
a magnificent tool for scientific modelling, visualisation and manipulations
with virtual models, their optimisation and continuous deformations.
All these changes are reflected also in education and teaching of
mathematics, which have recorded a great movement towards utilisation of
new information and communication technologies supporting heuristic teaching
strategies, investigative approach to obtaining knowledge, development of
problem-solving skills and self-involvement in the educational process.
Interactive activities and on-screen tools allow to visualise mathematical
ideas to aid understanding of key concepts and consolidate student's
learning. The visualisation of mathematical concepts is highly valuable
especially for better understanding and formulae explanations. Most of the
existing e-learning activities and solutions enable several levels allowing
thus differentiation and better progression for individual students. Topics
are revisited throughout certain schemes enabling students to develop
understanding of each topic at their individual pace and to desired
deepness.
Antonio Costa
Markus Hohenwarter
John Monaghan
Daniela Velichová