Objectives/Aims

LeActiveMath aims at advancing e-learning technology by developing innovative technology and by integrating advanced tools and components in one open, service-based system. The progress is evaluated in realistic learning settings.

The benefits for students using LeActiveMath include:

• Learning material tailored to the student's needs and interests. The personalization is pedagogically/cognitively justified.
• Students can work interactively with tools, take the initiative and self-regulate learning, e.g. in interactive exercises, in tutorial dialogues, in choosing learning settings and include learning objects, and searching for learning objects and interactive exercises. 
• Students can inspect their learner model and negotiate modifications. These meta-cognitive activities will support acceptance and self-monitoring. Since the learner model includes beliefs not only about the student's competencies but also about motivational variables, the system can adapt the feedback, dialogues and the user interface to the learner's motivation.
• Students can communicate in their own words in the dialogue.

Technological highlights include:

• open web-architecture and web-services
• reusable components
• multi-lingual system
• sophisticated personalization
• quality web-presentation including mathematical formulare
• player for several types of interactive (multi-step) exercises
• computer algebra system and other services used to generate feedback in interactive exercises
• interactive tools: lexicon, private and public notes, adaptive assessment tool, interactive concept map tool
• open learner model for visualizing the learner�s abilities
• searchable web-based repository of interactive exercises.

 Pedagogical highlights include: 

• moderate constructivist course
• problem-based learning support
• models pedagogical knowledge computationally
• competency-level pedagogy.