Math-Bridge:Technology-Enhanced Learning

on the European ScaleDr. Sergey Sosnovsky

Project info

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• 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

Motivation1

• Numbers of graduates in engineering disciplines is dropping all accross EU.In Germany: from 52.278 (1996) to 31.000 (2002)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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:

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Math-Bridge Helps Students

Learn

Students Like Math-Bridge

Math-Bridgeis an

Effective e-Learning Platform

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)

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www.math-bridge.org

Intelligent Problem Solving Support

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Personalized Course Generation

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Adaptive Navigation

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