Math bridge Usage Scenarios

1. Sergey Sosnovsky, Saarland University / DFKI
Math-Bridge Usage
Scenarios

2. Supported Learning Activity - 1
❖ Static course browsing
❖ Accessing multiple courses at the same time
❖ Making bookmarks to remember the last open page or the interesting
pages
❖ Solving interactive exercises
❖ Can be multistep
❖ Can provide advanced feedback
❖ Taking tests/exams
❖ Tests do not allow multiple attempts / Exam do, but without feedback
❖ Can be time-limited
❖ Protected from cheating

3. Supported Learning Activity (extra)
❖ Access learning content in multiple languages
❖ Individual learning objects can switch presentation language on-
demand
❖ Use advanced search
❖ Search for a phrase
❖ Search for a specific type of learning objects (with specific
features)
❖ Search for something that sounds “about right"
❖ Browse through the relations between learning objects

4. Supported Learning Activity (adaptive)
❖ Generate personalised courses
❖ Get navigation support through adaptive progress
indicators
❖ Receive adaptive on-demand micro-instructions

5. Supported Teaching Activity
❖ Course administration
❖ user management
❖ group membership management
❖ course/ test/exam management
❖ Reporting tool
❖ simple events
❖ exercise events
❖ aggregated student report
❖ aggregated exercise report
❖ test/exam reports
❖ …

6. Supported Authoring Activity
❖ Course assembly
❖ pre-generation
❖ modification of existing
❖ creation from scratch
❖ Creation of individual learning objects
❖ template-based exercise authoring
❖ semantic/syntactic /numeric correction check in exercises
❖ multilingual learning object authoring
❖ friendly metadata authoring
❖ hierarchical ontology browsing

7. Supported Research Activity
❖ Reports
❖ Hierarchical group management
❖ Functionality management

8. Math-Bridge Modes
Pure e-Learning Blended Learning Supplementary ToolMandatory Tool
No Adaptation Adaptive Navigation Course GenerationMicro-Instruction
Homework SupportTest/Exam Preparation Exercise providerFull course provider
Course mode
Adaptation mode
Activity mode

9. Distant course
Flipped classroom
Bridging Course
Standard Course
(BSc)
Standard Course
(MSc)
Usage Scenarios
Pure e-Learning Adaptive NavigationFull course provider
Micro-Instruction
Full course provider
Adaptive Navigation
Course Generation
Test/Exam Preparation
Exercise provider
Blended Learning Adaptive Navigation
Micro-Instruction
Mandatory Tool Test/Exam Preparation
Full course provider
Supplementary Tool
Supplementary Tool
Adaptive Navigation
Micro-InstructionHomework Support

10. Things to consider
❖ Content matching
❖ Math-Bridge content must follow the course content
❖ If existing Math-Bridge content is reused, the course material needs to be
modified accordingly
❖ If the course remains unchanged, it needs to be transferred into Math-Bridge
❖ Extrinsic motivation
❖ Math-Bridge activity => extra-credit
❖ Math-bridge performance => part of the course grade
❖ Some course activity can be done only in Math-Bridge
❖ Math-Bridge is promoted as a test/exam preparation tool
❖ Tests/exams are (partially) composed from Math-Bridge exercises (with some
modifications)
❖ Teacher’s Support