21 August 2009
RWTH Aachen University, Aachen (Germany)

The final meeting of the JEM Thematic Network is organized as a workshop during the Eight International Conference on Web-based Learning, ICWL 2009. This collocation aims to bring attention of the more general Web-based learning community to the issues involved in bringing mathematics teaching online.

This workshop aims to present to the wider audience the work and results of the partners of the Joining Educational Mathematics thematic network that has come to its conclusion after 3 years of activity. Partners of JEM are encouraged to present an overview of their work, with a special emphasis on how they have profited from cooperation within the network. The workshop is intended for a general audience interested in knowing what are the technologies and the methodologies that enhance teaching and learning of mathematics on the web.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• lessons learned in teaching mathematics online
• case studies of eLearning in mathematics
• best practices for educational use of ICT in mathematics
• technological foundation for new eLearning applications
• semantic technologies for eLearning
• management of eLearning content
• work-in-progress, software demos

Venue

See the ICWL page for details, maps and photos of the location of the workshop. It will take place in a seminar room on the fifth floor of Super C Building beside the grand main building of RWTH Aachen University.

Program

The one-day workshop program will consist of contributed presentations and discussion sessions.

9:00-9:05 Opening
9:05-9:35 Olga Caprotti. Three years of JEM.
9:35-10:05 Hans Cuypers, Jan Willem Knopper and Hans Sterk. MESS: the MathDox Exercise System
10:05-10:15 George Goguadze. The MathBridge Project.
10:15-10:45 Break
10:45-11:15 Christine Müller and Michael Kohlhase. Semantic Technologies for Mathematical eLearning
11:15-11:30 Christoph Lange. Towards a Wiki for Interactive Educational Mathematics
11:30-11:45 María Antonia Huertas. E-learning of mathematics at the UOC in the JEM context
11:45-12:00 Antonio Costa. Mathematics in UNED and JEM
12:00-12:30 Leendert van Gastel. Use the Web to close the Mathematics Gap
12:30-13:00 André Heck, Harm Houwing, John Val, Georgia Papageorgiou and Lilia Ekimova. Design and implementation of an e-class about continuous dynamical systems

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-14:45 Mika Seppäla. JEM outlook closing remarks

15:00 City Tour to Aachen (Optional)

Abstracts at a glance.

Registration

Registration is combined with the International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL). See ICWL2009 for details.

For workshop-only registration, attending only on August 21st, use this registration page.

Note that early bird registration ends on *** July 17 ***.

Organization

• Mika Seppäla, UH (Workshop Chair)
• Olga Caprotti, UH (Program Chair)
• David Carlisle, NAG (PC)
• Eberhard Hilf, ISN (PC)
• Christine Müller, JACU (PC)
• Sebastian Xambo, UPC (PC)

Dates

Submission: May 31, 2009
Notification: June 15, 2009
Workshop: August 21, 2009

Submission details

Title, abstract and paper in PDF can be submitted via Easychair - http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jem2009.
Full length (12 pages) or short (6 pages) papers will be published in the final proceedings of the JEM Network online. Authors should follow the style guidelines of LNCS. Selected contributions will be invited to submit to the printed volume currently in preparation with Liguori Editori.