LE ACTIVE MATH - Language-Enhanced, User Adaptive, Interactive eLearning for Mathematics
This project has developed a third generation learning system for mathematics that adapts to the learner and learning context. Features of the system are advanced personalisation, intelligent feedback and tutorial dialogues, open student modelling and interactivity to support active and exploratory learning.
- Project type: Specific targeted research project
- Start date: 1 January 2004
- Duration: 42 months
- EU funding: 3.950.000 €
- Number of partners: 9
- Project co-ordinator: Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, Competence Centre for eLearning, Saarbrücken (DE)
- Contact: Dr. Erica Melis
LeActiveMath has delivered an intelligent web-based learning system for mathematics. Main target users are students at high school, college or university level, but the technology can also be used in informal contexts for self learning. The system adapts to the learner and learning context and comprises personalisation, tutorial dialogues, open student modelling and interactivity. It supports active and exploratory learning.
The added value of LeActiveMath to traditional systems is due to:
- intelligent feedback and tutorial dialogue;
- integrated interactive tools that understand the semantics of learning objects;
- pedagogically grounded elements, contexts and strategies that employ tools beneficially;
- reaction to the student's motivational and emotional state;
- advanced personalisation;
- opportunity and scaffolding of self-guidance and learner-initiative;
- inspectable student model;
- accessible exercise repository and teacher support and free non-commercial usage.
LeActiveMath features a truly open architecture with one central student model, reusability of single components and tools, integration in one configurable system and innovative semantic knowledge representation and integrated tools using it. The semantic content encoding relies on and extends existing standards (such as OpenMath, IEEE LOM, Maths QTI).