Intergeo project page
The main objective of Intergeo is to make digital content for mathematics teaching in Europe more accessible, usable and exploitable.
- offer content in a searchable and metadata-tagged portal.
- enable users to use their software of choice by specifying a common file format based on open standards.
- test available material in the classroom. All stakeholders, software teams, resource authors, teachers and learners will be involved, in order to promote quality enhancement cycles.
Within Intergeo, DFKI leads the community platforms' and curriculum encoding work-packages.
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.
AMor
AMor (Adaptive Mathematik online Saar) is a project for developing ActiveMath content that shall help bridging the gap between what students know when they begin their studies and what really is expected from them in their courses at the university. The project focusses on chemistry and physics and therefore enforces collaboration of the three faculties chemistry, physics and computer science. The project is funded by the Saarland University and its duration is two years.
MatheBrücke
To prepare students for their studies the HTW (Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft) des Saarlandes offers so-called "Brückenkurse". This courses aim at teaching the students everything they need to get an optimal start of their studies. Goal of this project is the integration of parts of the HTW Brückenkurse content into the ActiveMath eLearning platform to provide students with another way to learn, prepare and rehearse what is taught during the courses.
ATuF
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. As a case in point we shall work with the fraction domain.
AtuF will extend the web-based learning environment for mathematics, ActiveMath, with a psychologically sound student model and with adaptation of feedback in exercises. The results of AtuF include psychologically justified techniques for the generation and multidimensional adaptation of tutorial feedback in interactive exercises derived from Narciss framework for informative tutorial feedback as well as from new empirical results.
E-Cel
The project is about the installation of an e-Chalk system ("Electronic Chalk") at Saarland University, as well as it's integration with the intelligent adaptive e-Learning system ActiveMath and the learning management system Clix Campus. Both mathematical (algebraic geometry) and medical (peadiatrics) content will be encoded.
In cooperation with SaarLernNetz, we develop an e-portfolio solution for maintaining and showcasing competencies. Additional components for matching personal competencies with job profile competencies will be devised and offered to customers of the SelbstLernZentrum Saar.
ActiveMath-EU project page
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.