Three years of JEM
Joining Educational Mathematics
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University of Helsinki
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Joining Educational Mathematics
Pool together the required expertise and contribute to
content enrichment activities
maintenance of agreed standards
delivery of powerful+ synoptic+ high!quality user
information and support page
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Helsingin Yliopisto
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Technical University of Eindhoven
Jacobs University
JEM Nodes
Universiteit van Amsterdam+
AMSTEL Institute
University of Birmingham
FernUniversit1t Hagen
Maths for More
NAG Ltd
ISN Oldenburg GmbH
RWTH Aachen University
Univ2 Nacional de Educaci3n a Distancia
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Universidade de Lisboa
Buskerud University College
NTNU+ Trondheim University
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Chalmers University of Technology
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
European Mathematical Society
Liguori Editore
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Major4Challenges
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Challenges
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Setup new initiatives
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Sci!ML+ TEAM!I+ Malmo+ eclasses
Multiteach+ Rome (not funded*
ES: i!Math+ e!math55+ MEL+
MOLTO PERSONAL(ONTO*+ SELL+ IBEMA
Establishing Web!based FI: MoPAL
Mathematical Learning Systems
UK: Fetlar
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Establish portal
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http://www.jem-thematic.net
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example, if the top 100 queries represent 1,000 user searches, and those users
searched for cheeseburger recipe 270 times, that query would represent 27%
of the total number of searches for the top 100 queries.
Query: The search terms used.
• Position: The highest position any page from your site ranked for that query,
averaged over the last week. Since our index is dynamic, this may not be the
same as the current position of your site for this query.
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so6ware descriptions repository case studies
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Tools
Blogs User!generated RSS
content (news+ aggregation &
Folksonomies
reviews+ feeds
discussions*
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Peer reviews
If you download or use a
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write a comment
score it
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So6ware and learning
resources can be rated+
commented reviewed2
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Blogs and news aggregation
Do you keep an academic math blog?
Does your project web page have an
RSS feed?
Let us aggregate you+ tell us about it2
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EMILeA "2# new release
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Scienti8c Communities of Practice Workshops
Semantic Wiki Seminar
OpenMath%!MathML% alignment
http:..www2jem!thematic2net.en.partner.JACU
talks of Christine and Christoph
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MathDox Editor
MESS exercises
OpenMath in Inter"Geo and in Science
http:..www2jem!thematic2net.en.partner.TUe
talk of Jan Willem
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WIRIS at UNED
Verbalization of formulas at UOC
WIRIS Quizzes in Moodle
OpenMath in InterGeo
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talks of Maria Antonia and Antonio
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Europe!wide solutions
MapleTA seminars in Helsinki and in Barcelona:
exchange of experiences on diagnostics testing
UNED+ UOC+ UAberta setup common goals for
Iberian distance learning universities (e2g2 talk of
Antonio Costa*
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Adopt common formats
OpenMath being adopted in Inter"Geo for
dynamic geometry
LOM!based+ OAI!PMH!conformant repositories:
JEM+ PhysNet+ UOC+ wizmo
Drupal modules for JEM repository
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Stimulate collaborations
math accessibility
math education
cognitive psychologists
math teachers
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Events
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Events
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Lesson learned
CMS like Drupal o9er sophisticated modules to
setup a community portal2
To promote best practice+ tools built on widely
used systems (e2g2 Drupal+ moodle* are more
likely to be adopted sooner2
Peer reviewing and rating of resources does not
work+ just as metadata entering does not2 There is
no reward in doing it2
Bridges to other communities take time to build2
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Join the JEM Community
http:..www2jem!thematic2net
Thank you!
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