The purpose of the study that I'll describe at JEM was to evaluate the efficacy of an assessment for learning system named ACED (Adaptive Content with Evidence-based Diagnosis). We used an evidence centered design approach (Mislevy, Steinberg, & Almond, 2003) to create an adaptive, diagnostic assessment system in relation to the pre-Algebra topic of "sequences" (e.g., geometric and arithmetic sequences). ACED includes five main models: competency, evidence, task, presentation, and assembly (Shute, Graf, & Hansen, 2005).

This fall, we are introducing two new features of the elearning platform "physik multimedial".
http://www.physik-multimedial.de

First, this is LiLi 2.0, a totally new version of LiLi, our catalogue and search engine of physic's learning material.
LiLi provides links with descriptions, comments and ratings of learning material on the web.
Everyone may search, comment, insert or rate the links.
We have checked and updated every link and description in our database and enhanced the handling of our service.

The WebALT project created a translator of mathematical teaching material from OpenMath formulas to seven European languages. This translator has recently become open-source, which opens new ways to develop and extend it. One of the main ambitions is to extend the system to cover all of the 23 official languages of the European Union. This goal requires organized collaboration of voluntary work. The main part of the work is the implementation of the GF Resource Grammar Library to new languages.

For some time WIRIS suite has offered tools to support education in mathematics and science topics in Moodle, the Open Source LMS. So far these solutions offered a formula editor based on icons and pallets, plus a powerful platform for mathematical calculation called WIRIS CAS. We want to present the new WIRIS family member, called Quizzes, that integrates the powerful WIRIS mathematical calculation engine of with Moodle quizzes system.

The number of students studying sciences in Europe has steadily declined to such an extent that this is seen as a threat to the competitiveness of Europe. In France the decline has been about 5% each year during the past several years. Inquiry Based Study, IBS, is the paradigm that is generally seen as a possible way to increase students’ interest in sciences.

In the time period from April 2001 to December 2004, the development of the web-based learning and teaching environment EMILeA-stat has been funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (bmb+f). During this period, a consortium of several German universities was involved in the design and programming of the environment as well as the creation of its contents. EMILeA-stat contains a wide variety of introductory texts, examples, exercises and interactive visualizations for different topics in statistics and probability.

In this talk, we will discuss three main issues: (a) the importance of ICT in the Portuguese Education System (PES), including new national initiatives and their impact in the New Curriculum for the Portuguese Basic Education; (b) the initiatives EECM, PmatE, TextMat, and IntBooks; and (c) our point of view regarding the current PES, the TERC reform in the US, and how the AA model may help to clarify some questions in Education.

In a virtual learning environment with contents that follow textual and graphic (image) formats the correct reading of formulas and mathematical expressions is not feasible. The students of such non face-to-face simply do not “hear” how the formulas are read and therefore they can not access that important competence.

Curricula changes in the Finnish school system have happened in ten year intervals. In mathematics they have followed the international trends. The most obvious changes are the following:

1. Mathematics at school became descriptive - exact definitions and proofs were largely omitted.
2. Geometry and trigonometry were neglected.
3. Computations were performed by calculators and numbers and not on a more advanced level.

This short presentation is devoted to briefly introduce the InterGeo project and to present their most recent news, specially the search of country representatives and curricula decoders.