E-Teaching mathematics in UNED

UNED is a distance learning university depending on the central government of Spain and providing traditional degrees and also mathematical studies from 1975. The teaching system of UNED is based on special designed texts and tutorial advice given on local centres or from the central site in Madrid. In the evaluation it is essential the presence of the student in a local centre in order to make a written test. This method of teaching has a very great success and at the moment is the University with greater number of students in mathematics in Spain and offers from grade studies to PhD. The aim of this talk is to present the adaptation of the UNED teaching system to the e-learning technologies. In this adaptation it is important to maintain the freedom in the study, one of the main reasons for the success of UNED.

At the moment we are using the platform WebCT. It the talk we shall present two courses with a virtualization in such system. The courses include working-plans, texts, computer laboratories, talked lessons, registered videoconferences, evaluation tests, communications media…One of the tools with better results is the forum, where the number of participations is so high in some subject that force to the University to engage more teachers in order to attend all the consults.

The UNED is also developing his own platform alf that we shall describe slightly.

Finally we shall expose the project on the plan of reception in UNED (“plan de acogida”) that includes a 0 – course for helping with the gaps on the starting formation of students.

Author(s): 
Antonio F. Costa
Publication_details: 
3rd JEM Workshop, 31 Jan.-1 Feb. 2008, Barcelona Spain
Date: 
2008/01/31
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