Finished project. LeActiveMath is a specific targeted research project (STREP) funded under the
6th Framework Programme of the European Commission. It received the best rating of all e-learning projects in the first call of FP6. The project runs from January 2004 till December 2006 and includes 9 partners. The consortium is led by DFKI.
Mixed Initiative Proof Planning and its Application
Finished project. Mippa is a research project funded by the DFG.
Finished project. Funded by BMBF in its programme "New Media in Education"
Finished project. The aim of the MMiSS project, which is supported by BMBF in its programme "New Media in Education", is to set up a multimedia Internet-based adaptive educational system, covering the whole subject of Safe Systems. The project includes 5 partners and is led by the University of Bremen.
Finished project. Mowgli is a research project funded under the 5th Framework Programme of the European Commission. The project includes 6 partners and the consortium is led by University of Bologna (Italy), Department of Computer Science.
Finished project. Matheführerschein at Fachhochschule Dortmund. Try our local demo at http://mafue.activemath.org.
This project was funded by Arbeitgeberverband Gesamtmetall.
Finished project. Chemistry students, like students in physics, mathematics, and other technical disciplines, often learn to solve problems algorithmically, applying well-practiced procedures to textbook problems. But often these students do not understand the underlying conceptual aspects of the problems they solve algorithmically.
An important setting for promoting conceptual understanding in chemistry is the laboratory, where students must apply not only pre-defined problem solving procedures, but must also plan experiments, hypothesize outcomes, conduct and monitor experiments, and evaluate outcomes. In the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center (PSLC) Chemistry LearnLab, the Virtual Laboratory (VLab) is the online software environment used to simulate a real chemistry laboratory and assist students in their conceptual understanding of chemistry. However, the VLab on its own is not enough.
In this project, we will further assist chemistry students in their conceptual learning, first, through having pairs of students collaborate on problems, assisted by computer-mediated collaboration scripts that extend the VLab and, later, through dynamic adaptation of those collaboration scripts. In this one-year project, we will analyze current use of the VLab, design and implement a computer-mediated collaborative environment around the VLab, using a collaborative software tool called Cool Modes, and execute a lab study to evaluate the effectiveness of this tool. The one-year project will provide the foundation for an longer term project in which we will perform full-scale classroom studies to test the hypotheses that
- collaboration, supported by collaboration scripts, can promote the creation and strengthening of conceptual chemistry knowledge and
- that dynamic adaptation of the collaboration scripts can further improve that learning.
Kaleidoscope Network of Excellence
Finished project. Initiative on distributed log repositions
The project runs from January 2004 until June 2008 and includes over 20 partners. The consortium is led by Siemens Business Services.
ActiveMath-EU project page
Finished project. 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.
Since the analysis of LeActiveMath' exploitation potential by Klett-Verlag has shown that an open-source distribution is a key exploitation measure, the services to be developed by ActiveMath-EU include: user mailing list, uploading facilities, integration into open-source LMS, integration into portals, manual for users, web-site with wiki, etc. The European dimension will be strengthened by making ActiveMath available in more languages and for a larger geographical coverage, by disseminating to European networks, and by including representatives of new countries in the user community and in the consortium. The open-source community does not stop at countryboarders anyway.
Finished project. An important trend in learning is collaboration. However, collaboration does not occur naturally; it typically requires some support. In the Argunaut project, we are using machine learning and data mining techniques to help a moderator support computer-based argumentation between students. The project started December 2005 and will run for 33 months. It is funded by the European Commission.