Math-Bridge Platform
- 1. Math-Bridge: Technology-Enhanced Learning on the European Scale Dr. Sergey Sosnovsky
- 2. Project info 2 • Supported by the eContentplus program (budget ~ 3.5 mil.) • Duration: from 01.05.09 to 31.01.12 • Partners: 9 universities + 2 companies from 7 EU countries
- 3. Motivation1 • Numbers of graduates in engineering disciplines is dropping all accross EU. In Germany: from 52.278 (1996) to 31.000 (2002) 3
- 4. Motivation2 • Drop-out rates of students in engineering and science programs across the EU vary from 15-40% • Lack of mathematics competencies is identified as one of the major reasons • Existing remedial courses suffer from several problems: – unilingual content – little interactivity – not interoperable, not standard compliant – not for all colleges and universities • Bridge the gap between schools and higher education in Europe by developing the pan-European repository of remedial content + adaptive platform for accessing it 4
- 5. Project objectives • Enhance existing European content collections • Implement them in interoperable format • Provide multi-lingual and multi-cultural access (English, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Dutch, Hungarian) • Customize adaptive e-Learning system ActiveMath (developed at CeLTech) into the Math-Bridge platform • Integrate Math-Bridge with existing assessment tools and LMS • Evaluate Math-Bridge platform • Form the user community and disseminate project results 5
- 6. Project Results Content & Knowledge Base • Largest in EU Collection of Math Bridging Content – Sliced into Individual Learning Objects (>10 000) – Sharable Formats (XML, RDF, OWL) – Multilingual/Multicultural (7 languages) – Annotated with Metadata (OMDoc, LOM, Dublic Core) – Interactive Learning Experience (>5 000 exercises) • Math-Bridge Ontology – 600 concepts formalizing remedial mathematics • Notation Census – Full set of mathematical notations for 7 Languages for all concepts of the Math-Bridge Ontology 6
- 7. Project Results Advanced Platform for Math Courses • Student Functionality – Learning Content Presentation – Personalized Course Generation – Semantic Search – User Feedback Infrastructure – Adaptive Navigation Support • Teacher/Administrator Functionality – Student Management – Group Management – Server Management – Reporting Tool 7
- 8. Project Results Large-Scale Evaluation of Math-Bridge • >3000 students from 9 universities and 7 countries • Different scenarios: – full e-Learning, – blended learning, – supplementary tool in a regular course • Almost 300 000 page access within Math-Bridge • Main result: 8 Math-Bridge Helps Students Learn Students Like Math-Bridge Math- Bridge is an Effective e-Learning Platform
- 9. Project Results Community and Exploitation • Math-Bridge Community: – 11 full-time partners – > 40 associated partners • Math-Bridge is regularly used for teaching bridging courses in several EU universities (last count: 9 universities from 6 countries) • Follow-up projects: – Kompetenzbrücken (European Regional Development Fund) – MetaMath (Tempus IV) – MathGeAr (Tempus IV) 9
- 11. Intelligent Problem Solving Support 11