Combining various technologies in effective online math instruction - a nationwide secondary level math project

摘要

Since January 2010, Wroclaw University of Technology has been involved in an educational project under the name of “Mathematics - Reactivation”. The second-named author is the project coordinator and both authors play the primary role as content creators. The project goal is to provide Polish secondary schools with a complete e-course in mathematics, covering the whole math curriculum in secondary schools. Automatic assessment of the learner's progress is one of crucial elements of the course. The demand for such additional teaching support emerged in view of the continuing decline in the quality of math instruction together with recent restoration of obligatory graduation math exam in Polish education system. The target group of project beneficiaries amounts to 14000 students. The project goes far beyond mere dissemination of electronic content. The participants are involved in a sophisticated system of regular electronic testing, with the results stored in a database and later processed statistically. In that way, the participating schools receive a comprehensive, interactive supplement to the traditional teaching process. The e-learning solutions that the authors had previously implemented at the university level have now been enhanced. A variety of technologies have been combined. The usefulness of the whole system is continuously being confirmed by the so-far gathered feedback on the part of participating teachers and students.