JEM: Joining Educational Mathematics

• Responsable: Seppälä, Mika
• Duración: 01/01/2007

Descripción

The real challenge of e-Learning is to produce content that brings a general improvement in the way students
learn and teachers teach. But the design and production of high-quality digital content has turned out to be
harder than expected, the main reason being that it requires the convergence of many kinds of experts in
parallel to the convergence of the several technologies involved. In the case of mathematics, the least amount
of expertise asks for the presence of professional mathematicians, software engineers, publishers, and perhaps
learning theorists, that can productively talk to each other. To channel this expertise in order to enhance
the quality of eContent in mathematics is the goal of the JEM network.
There is a critical mass of activity around the area of semantic markup for mathematics which is directly
related to enhancing digital content, in particular e-learning of mathematics. Much of this activity is or has
been sponsored by the EU (OpenMath, OpenMathTN, WebALT, LeActiveMath,Genesis), some is sponsored
by national agencies (MatTaFI,Serving Mathematics, EMILeA-stat, Moses, Mumie, MEMBERS, math-kit),
some by multi-national consortia (W3C?s MathML Interest Group,OpenMath Society), and some by private
enterprise (NAG Ltd., Liguori Editore, Maths For More, ISN). Coordination of these activities, maintenance
of agreed standards, delivery of a powerful synoptic high-quality user information and support pages, invoked
in elearning platforms operated by the partners, will have tremendous long-term benefits for the quality of
e-learning in mathematics in Europe and the wider world.

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