JEM seminar and Symposium on

"Math tutoring: tools and feedback"

Heerlen (the Netherlands), 18-19 September 2008

http://ideas.cs.uu.nl/wiki/index.php/Symposium

The aim of the symposium is to bring together content providers, developers, teachers and educational researchers to discuss and share the best practices of the ongoing research, applications and projects on web-based interactive mathematics.

The symposium focuses on the didactics and technologies related to web-based interactive mathematical exercise systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

• Mathematical tutoring tools
• Intelligent Feedback in Exercises
• Software development standards
• User studies

The symposium wants to bring together experts in technologies, mathematics and science education, practitioners and providers of tools and content.

Invited speakers include

• Frank Luebeck (RWTH)
• Johannes Waldmann (Leizig)
• George Goguadze (Saarbruecken)

Below you find the complete program

Thursday 18-09-2008

    * 10.30 Registration/Coffee
    * 11.00 Welcome
    * 11.15 - 12.00 Frank Luebeck - OKUSON, online homework excercises with mathematical content
    * 12.00 - 13.15 Lunch
    * 13.15 - 14.00 Johan Jeuring - Specifying Strategies for Exercises. abstract Johan Jeuring
    * 14.00 - 15.00 Feedback tools:
          o Bastiaan Heeren
          o Hans Cuypers - Feedback in MathDox exercises
          o Erik Jansen - Direct feedback in an e-learning system for Linear Algebra. abstract Erik Jansen 
    * 15.00 - 15.30 Coffee/tea
    * 15.30 - 16.00 Gemma Corbalan - Learning and motivational effects of different forms of feedback in linear algebra problems 

    * 16.00 - 16.30 Josje Lodder - Using feedback tools, some ideas on the didactics
    * 16.30 - 17.15 Johannes Waldmann - The Leipzig "autotool" E-Learning/E-Testing system for student problems in Theoretical Computer Science. abstract Johannes Waldmann
    * 18.30 Conference dinner 

Friday 19-09-2008

    * 9.15 - 10.00 Peter Boon - Interactive exercises in the DWO. abstract Peter Boon
    * 10.00 - 10.45 Leendert van Gastel
    * 10.45 - 11.15 Coffee/tea
    * 11.15 - 12.00 Peter Kop - Denkgereedschap om Vergelijkingen op te lossen.
    * 12.00 - 12.45 Christian Bokhove
    * 12.45 - 13.45 Lunch
    * 13.45 - 14.30 George Goguadze - Interactive Exercises in ActiveMath : Cross-Domain Diagnosis and Automated Tutorial Strategies.  

This symposium is sponsored by SURF and by JEM.