This document discusses Work Package 3 (WP3) of the MetaMath project, which aims to equip universities in Russia with the capacity to use modern EU ICT technologies for math education, particularly the Math-Bridge intelligent web-based platform. WP3 involves building technical capacity through training teachers and technicians on Math-Bridge, localizing and installing Math-Bridge at the universities, and developing new learning materials for courses. Specific tasks outlined include equipping computer labs, installing Math-Bridge servers, providing authoring tools for creating content, and conducting a week-long training in Math-Bridge usage and administration.

1. Sergey Sosnovsky, Saarland University / DFKI
WP3: Building up New
Capacities in Russian
Universities
10/03/2016, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

2. WP3 Goal
• Equip partner universities in Russia with technical,
methodological and practical capacities to use
modern EU ICT for math education,…
• …in particular, the Intelligent Web-based
Platform for math courses “Math-Bridge”

3. WP3 Motivation:
Progress in Intelligent Adaptive e-Learning Systems
• Can maintain personalized online learning experience by
• tracking students’ progress,
• understanding their strengths and weaknesses
• providing individualized instruction
• Can serve as economically-effective alternatives/assistants to a human teacher in
a range of learning scenarios
• Can implement various adaptation techniques:
• Intelligent problem solving support
• Adaptive Sequencing and Course Generation
• Adaptive Navigation
• Adaptive Presentation
• Adaptive Recommendation
• Adaptive Testing
• etc.

4. WP3 Motivation:
Known Effects of Intelligent Adaptive e-Learning Systems
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems are known to increase:
• speed of learning
• test scores and knowledge retention
• knowledge transfer
• Adaptive Hypermedia Systems and Open Student
Modeling are known to improve:
• student motivation
• self-regulated learning
• navigation within learning material

5. WP3 Motivation:
US/EU Investments in Modern Educational Technologies
• From 2007 to 2012, within FP7 invested 211 mil. only
directly through TEL-related calls + programs of EACEA
agency (Tempus, LLLP, etc.) + national funding
• US only in 2012 invested $830 mil. in new technologies
for Education and Human Resources. Special focus is paid
to STEM education.
• Joint NSF / NIH program Cyberinfrastructure
Framework for 21st Century Science, Engineering, and
Education ($155)
• CMU’s Simon Initiative on Exploring Human Learning
with Technology

6. Adaptive e-Learning with Math-Bridge

7. WP3 Tasks
• Technical capacity building
• Training of teachers and technicians to use and support
Math-Bridge Platform
• Localisation and Installation of the Math-Bridge Platform
• Development of new and adoption of existing learning
material for modernised courses

8. WP3: Technical capacity building
• Each RU university equipped a computer class for
students using Math-Bridge
• Installed Math-Bridge on dedicated local severs
• Provided teachers with computers necessary to create
content in Math-Bridge
• Alltogether, about 150 computers have been purchased
or co-financed within the framework of MetaMath

9. WP3: Math-Bridge Training
• Saarbrücken,
06.07.2015-10.07.2015
• 4 large groups of topics:
• Learning with Math-Bridge
• Teaching with Math-Bridge
• Authoring for Math-Bridge
• Math-Bridge Administration

10. WP3: Localisation and Installation of Math-Bridge

11. WP3: Math-Bridge Authoring Tools

12. WP3: Math-Bridge Authoring Tools
• Complete authoring cycle: from individual
learning objects to their collections, to course and
test assembly to publishing for students
• Static and Interactive learning objects
• Generation and parameterisation of exercises
• Design of training exercises with advanced
feedback
• Provision of metadata
• etc.