posted by eric at May 3, 2010 11:00 AM
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George Goguadze and Eric Andrès presented ActiveMath at the e-Learning Day 2010 held at the auditorium of Saarland University. You can find out more about the event here: http://www.elearning-day.de
posted by Oliver at Mar 30, 2010 11:13 AM
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Jana Trgalova, Denis Bouhineau and Jean-François Nicaud have reviewed and compared state of the art Interactive Learning Environments for Arithmetic and Algebra, including ActiveMath. The results have been published in the International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning:Trgalova, J., Bouhineau, D., Nicaud, J.-F. (2009). An Analysis of Interactive Learning Environments for Arithmetic and Algebra. International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning, 14(3), 299-331. DOI: 10.1007/s10758-009-9155-9The review gives a good overview and fair comparison of the different systems. Important to note: Newer ActiveMath releases provide even more (and improved) features than the ones described in the article. For instance, as opposed to the other systems, ActiveMath does not have always the same prescribed tutorial strategy for all exercises, but many custom strategies are possible. These strategies can provide coloring student's answers, give hints and solutions in solicited and unsolicited (and mixed) way.
posted by eric at Mar 17, 2010 2:40 PM
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Our group presented ActiveMath at the CeBit fair in Hannover as part of the new CeLTech institute. We were situated at the Saarland University and DFKI booth in the Future Parc hall, close to the Future Talk pavillon where Prof. Siekmann presented trends of e-Learning to an interested audience on Saturday.
posted by Oliver at Mar 15, 2010 12:43 PM
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ActiveMath member Dimitra Tsovaltzi successfully defended her PhD thesis titled "Menon: Automating a Socratic Teaching Model for Mathematical Proofs," which was supervised by Prof. Dr. Jörg Siekmann (Saarland University, Computer Science) and reviewed by Prof. Dr. Roland Brünken (Saarland University, Educational Science), Dr. Bruce M. McLaren (Carnegie Mellon University), and Dr. Collin Matheson (University of Edinburgh).Thesis abstract:
We present an approach to adaptive pedagogical feedback for arbitrary domains as an alternative to resource-intensive pre-compiled feedback, which represents the state-of-the-art in intelligent tutoring systems. A consequence of automatic adaptive pedagogical feedback is that the number of tasks with feedback that can be offered to students for practice increases. We focus on automating different aspects of teaching that together are primarily responsible for learning and can be integrated in a unified natural-language output. The automatic production and natural-language dialogue generation of feedback enables its personalisation both at the pedagogical and the dialogue level. We propose a method for automating the production of domain-independent adaptive feedback. The proof-of-concept implementation of the tutorial manager Menon implements a Socratic teaching strategy for the domain of set-theory proofs.
posted by Oliver at Jan 18, 2010 10:10 AM
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The Canadian mathematic pedagogist Prof. Sherry Mantyka who is organizing bridging courses at Memorial University of Newfoundland is visiting Saarbrücken to help designing a remedial scenario for ActiveMath.
posted by Oliver at Jan 15, 2010 3:11 PM
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Sergey Sosnovsky's proposal for EU Marie Curie Fellowship has been approved by the EU Research Executive Agency. The funding will start in April, 2010 and will last until April 2012. The project "Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content" will focus on implementation of author-friendly technologies for learning content development, including collaborative authoring support, metadata authoring support, open-corpus content discovery, interactivity authoring, and gap detection.
posted by Oliver at Jan 15, 2010 3:11 PM
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Anatoly Belchusov from Russia is a DAAD visiting researcher at DFKI. The purpose of his visit is developing domain reasoning services to serve intelligent diagnosis and feedback generation in the domain of integrals. He is using YACAS platform for encoding the domain reasoner, which is connected to the ITS module of ActiveMath Learning Environment. Anatoly stays in Saarbrücken from 15.10 till 15.12.2009.
posted by Oliver at Jan 15, 2010 3:10 PM
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Sergey Sosnovsky, a PhD candidate from the School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) joined our group. Sergey received his MSc and BSc from Kazan State Technological University, Kazan, Russia. His research focuses on combining new trends of Web development with Adaptive and User Modelling technologies. Sergey has co-authored about 60 peer-reviewed research publications and served on programming committees of several workshops in the area of Semantic Web for Adaptation.
posted by winter at Sep 23, 2009 1:17 PM
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Brückenkurse an der Fachhochschule Saarbrücken mit ActiveMathZur Zeit laufen an der Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (HTW) in
Saarbrücken die bewährten Brückenkurse für die Studienanfänger des
Wintersemesters 2009/2010. Neu daran ist, dass die Brückenkurse für Mathematik in diesem Jahr zum ersten Mal mit Hilfe von ActiveMath durchgeführt werden.
An den vierwöchigen Brückenkursen nehmen in diesem Jahr ca. 700
Studienanfänger von 15 Studiengängen teil. Jede der 32 Übungsgruppen
absolviert einen Teil des Kurses in eigens eingerichteten PC-Räumen
der HTW mit einem speziell geschulten ActiveMath-Tutor. Darüberhinaus
werden für interessierte Studenten zusätzliche Notebook-Übungen
angeboten.Brückenkurse erleichtern den Übergang von Schule zu Studium. Sie
helfen den angehenden Studenten, ihre Kenntnislücken schon vor dem
Studium auszugleichen und vergessenes Wissen wieder aufzufrischen.Inhalt der Mathematik-Brückenkurse ist der Stoff ab Klasse
10, also beispielsweise Gleichungen, Elementare Geometrie, Funktionen,
Differential- und Integralrechnung sowie Vektorrechnung.Ein Großteil des gedruckten Skripts sowie sämtliche Übungsaufgaben
sind in ActiveMath in identischer Form vorhanden, so dass auch die
Hausaufgaben online am Rechner zuhause durchgearbeitet werden können.ActiveMath unterstützt die Lernenden dabei durch seine
Anpassungsfähigkeit an den jeweiligen Wissensstand. Studenten können
sich aus dem gesammelten Stoff individuelle Inhalte zusammenstellen
lassen, die nach pädagogischen Prinzipien gruppiert und an ihr
jeweiliges Studienfach angepasst sind. So erhalten beispielsweise
angehende Architekten eher geometrisch orientierte Beispiele und
Übungen, während für Betriebswirtschaftler eher Inhalte aus dem
wirtschaftlichen Berich gewählt werden.Tutoren unterstützt ActiveMath, indem sie schnell und einfach
individuelle Bücher für ihre Gruppen zusammenstellen können, die
speziell auf eine Unterrichtsstunde zugeschnitten und an Fachgebiet
und Lernstand der Teilnehmer angepasst sind.Neben ActiveMath wird auch das an der HTW selbst entwickelte
e-Learning-System MathCoach eingesetzt, das für den Brückenkurs in
Activemath integriert wurde.
posted by Oliver at Jun 16, 2009 2:58 PM
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Following the formal beginning of the eContentplus Math-Bridge project on May 01, 2009, the project consortium has organized 2 important kick-off events:
- the technical workshop (May12-15, 2009) aimed at building a common ground between technology and content providers and initiating the cooperative work in the project
- the official kick-off meeting (May 26) which has played an important role in setting the project management regime (attended by the representative of the EC).
posted by Oliver at Jan 23, 2009 12:26 PM
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Next week, probably on Friday 30th at 11:30, Paul Libbrecht will be demonstrating ActiveMath at CERME 6, the Sixth Conference of European Research in Mathematics Education, in WG7 (http://cerme6.univ-lyon1.fr/group7.php).
posted by Oliver at Dec 15, 2008 10:24 AM
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The LASAD project ("Learning to Argue: Generalized Support Across Domains”) aims at creating a generalized framework and methodology for the construction of argumentation support systems to help students learn argumentation in different domains. The realization of this goal will involve the research of a reusable ontology of argumentation learning objects, a large set of visual, analytic, and pedagogic components that can be combined in different fashions to create different domain-specific argumentation tutoring systems, and the research of an interoperable software system architecture, not specific to a particular domain, that allows the flexible integration of the different researched methods and components.
Project website: http://lasad.dfki.de/
Project website: http://lasad.dfki.de/
posted by george at Sep 9, 2008 11:51 AM
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Hello users of this website,should you wish to help us evaluate the usability of this website, have a look athttp://www.activemath.org/projects/downloads/survey/am_website.htmlThank you for your help
posted by Oliver at Jul 1, 2008 3:51 PM
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This year's Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS-08) took place in Montreal / Canada from June 23th to June 27th, 2008. ITS is one of the leading international conferences in the intersection area of learning technologies and artificial intelligence with rather strict acceptance criteria for submitted papers (acceptance rate for full papers: 30.4%). Five members of the ActiveMath group participated and presented three full papers and three posters to the interested audience.
posted by Oliver at Jun 3, 2008 5:04 PM
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Das ActiveMath-System wurde bei der Veranstaltung "Didaktische Fragen beim Einsatz virtueller Lehr- und Lernumgebungen im Fach Mathematik" der "Landesakademie für Fortbildung und Personalentwicklung an Schulen" in Stuttgart/Esslingen vorgestellt. Nach der Präsentation fand eine rege Diskussion mit den Teilnehmern statt, welche hauptsächlich als Lehrer an allgemeinbildenden, beruflichen und technischen Gymnasien tätig sind.Die Vorstellung wurde mit Begeisterung aufgenommen. Hierzu Dieter Kriessell, ein mit ActiveMath assoziierter Lehrer auf die Frage nach der Resonanz des Publikums:"… absolut positiv. Die Beispiele (ich habe Differenzenquotient und Summenregel der Ableitung gezeigt) kamen gut an. Begeistert waren die Teilnehmer von dem Input Editor, der den Schülern (endlich) ermöglicht, 'mathematische Antworten' zu geben, also auch Antworten mathematisch auszuformulieren. Vollends begeistert waren die Kollegen dann, als klar wurde, dass die Eingaben nicht syntaktisch, sondern semantisch abgeprüft werden - endlich weg von langen Aufgaben, die mit der Eingabe einer Dezimalzahl enden."
posted by Oliver at May 13, 2008 2:34 PM
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Prof. Jörg Siekmann hat einen Festvortrag zum Thema 'Künstliche Intelligenz' beim Bezirkstag Baden-Pfalz-Saar der Ingenieure für Kommunikation gehalten, der mit großer Begeisterung aufgenommen wurde.
posted by Oliver at May 7, 2008 3:58 PM
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This is a bug-fix release. The following issues have been corrected:
- Tutorial Component / Planner
- now displays a user friendly error page when no course could be generated
- improved handling for randomized exercises
- Learner Model SLM
- model storage now with backup
- improved performance
- Extasy Authoring Tool
- graph applet now supports one-button mouse (Mac)
- fixed encoding error in text element
- improved name check for new exercise
- fixed display error with Firefox 3
- line breaks in Omdoc titles no longer lead to errors
- fixes for MBase remote interface
posted by Oliver at Apr 24, 2008 1:25 PM
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An article about ActiveMath has been published in the March-April issue of the German science magazine opensource.
posted by Oliver at Apr 21, 2008 3:57 PM
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AMor, a project aiming at the development of bridging courses for chemists and physicists funded by the Universität des Saarlandes has been launched.
posted by Oliver at Apr 21, 2008 3:56 PM
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We are pleased to announce that release 1.0 of ActiveMath is finally available. ActiveMath 1.0 is a stabilization of the ActiveMath development and a polish of most of its features. Detailed release notes can be found here.
ActiveMath 1.0 is released under the d-fsl license (German Free Software License). You can download the server application here.
ActiveMath 1.0 is currently running under the preliminary address http://am-preview.activemath.org, and will soon be installed on our regular demo server.
posted by Oliver at Apr 21, 2008 3:55 PM
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The project e-Cel hat started on January 1st, 2008. The aim of the project is to integrate the systems ActiveMath, e-Chalk and Clix Campus.
posted by Oliver at Apr 21, 2008 3:55 PM
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ActiveMath 1.0 is nearing completion and we are happy to announce the availability of the release candidate 1. It can be seen here.
ActiveMath 1.0 is a stabilization of the ActiveMath development and a polish of most of its features. We would be looking forward to all interested parties to ActiveMath to actually give a spin at testing this installation and tracking any issue encountered.
What has changed ? Lots since the LeActiveMath releases… among others the addition of languages (now ActiveMath speaks 9 languages), the support for several computer-algebra-systems, and the maturation of most components.
posted by Oliver at Apr 21, 2008 3:54 PM
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ActiveMath members Erica Melis and Martin Homik participated at the Kaleidoscope Symposium in Berlin, Nov 26-27. They presented recent work on a centralized data repository (for more information click here).
posted by Oliver at Apr 21, 2008 3:53 PM
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Read the interview with Martin Homik on the e-Portfolio landscape in Germany. It has been published by the Stuttgarter Zeitung. Here to the interview.
posted by Oliver at Apr 21, 2008 3:52 PM
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The intergeo project has been launched, with a kick-off in Schwäbisch-Gmünd on Oct 16th 2007. The goal of the eContentPlus project is the sharing of interactive geometry through Europe. It is run with most interactive geometry makers of Europe and with the expertise of the ActiveMath group for the web-platforms and pedagogical modelling aspects.
See the press release.
posted by Oliver at Apr 21, 2008 3:49 PM
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AtuF combines empirical psychological and AI research in order to develop a psychologically sound exercise system that provides most useful feedback and adapts it to the learner s competency and motivation. The theoretical basis for the feedback generation is Narciss' ITF framework ("informative tutorial feedback"). As a case in point we shall work with the fraction domain.
posted by Oliver at Apr 21, 2008 3:46 PM
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ActiveMath-EU is launched, a project for the dissemination of the results of LeActiveMath. ActiveMath-EU shall develop essential services, a community, and relations to networks to widely disseminate and exploit results of the highly successful FP6 project LeActiveMath.
Project Page: http://www.activemath.org/eu