OverviewLeActiveMath delivers an innovative web-based, intelligent, multi-lingual e-learning system for mathematics that will be used in high school and college or university level classrooms as well as for self-study.
Its semantic content encoding relies on and extends existing standards (such as OpenMath, IEEE LOM, Maths QTI). It can be used and is actually used for other mathematical services on the Web.
As a mathematical research project, LeActiveMath investigates cutting edge technologies and combines the technologies and opportunities of the Web with intelligent tutoring techniques and language technology. This enables a variety and a combination of features that no single system has featured so far: LeActiveMath provides mathematical course material adaptive to:
- the learner's goals
- the learning scenario
- the learner's individual competency-level
- user preferences
LeActiveMath integrates tools that can be used in exercises and for exploratory learning such as a semantic search engine, a concept map tool, an assessment tool, and an exercise repository.
LeActiveMath develops tutorial dialogues, feedback in interactive exercises, an open, inspectable student model, and it models the student's competencies and motivation.
Its tools and components are motivated by pedagogical and cognitive research. In particular, LeActiveMath is learner-centred and supports the learner's initiative. The technology as well as the content that is developed to evaluate the technology realizes a moderate constructivist and problem-based approach to learning and teaching mathematics.
LeActiveMath is evaluated in a number of European schools and universities. The requirements, developments, and the evaluation are discussed with an advisory board representing the target users.
LeActiveMath is one of the three Specific Targeted Research Projects selected in the first call of the 6th Framework Programme Information Society Technologies, key action Technology-Enhanced eLearning. The project ran from January 2004 - December 2006.
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