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