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The structure of activities in RCN and MATH.SE

Johan ThorbiörnsonPhD, Director MATH.SE

Director RCN - Resource Centre for Netbased Education

[email protected], +46 703 371100

Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm

http://www.math.se

[email protected]


RCN organisation

• President Gustav Amberg (skolchef)• Director Johan Thorbiörnson

• Steering committee (academic representatives)• Staff at RCN

• Work related to scientific content is done on institutions and units

• Under consultants (can be mentors, technical infrastructure and development, marketing and publishing, implementation and production of multimedia content, running operations, maintenance of IT-systems, etc )

• Projects on institutions (MATH.SE is such a project)


The way through the system for the student• Application• Computer account• Log in• Study, tutoring,

supervision, feedback, remainders

• Examination


The student log in through a central database• Will then be linked to the specific learning platform and

the net based tools within which activities will be done. • Instead of a solution based on one single LMS we use

different modules and specific net based tools, linked together in one framework.

• Different technical solutions, for example a Wiki for publishing course material, systems for automatically corrected tests, systems for collaboration and groupwork, etc.


Student Lounge

Links to• Course literature• Examination parts and tests• Course forum• Personal tutor• Study guidance, etc• Administrative tools

Personal study plan

After logging in, the student comes to their personal page.


Course material in a wiki solution

• Teachers can develop material in working teams

• Version management• Mathematical signs and other

special signs can be displayed directly in the web browser (LaTeX)

• In discussion forums the students easily can write mathematics by clicking on buttons for special signs or more advanced by using LaTeX.


The examination process is partitioned into levels and performed continuously during the course:

• Basic facts - basic tests after each section

• Problem solving - final tests after each section

• Analysis and synthesis, ability to discuss and evalute – wiki for individual assignment and group assignment

• Final evaluation and feedback of cohesive knowledge, feedback and grading – written or oral exam

The student will be coached by tutors online, who follows and tracks the work by the students with the net based examination, continuously during the course.

Net based examination – framework for courses


What happens under the “shell”?


RCN supports the complete process1. The student's application and continued studies

- Marketing

- Formal course information on the web

- The student's application, flexible application process during the year

- Basic data for decision on admission

- Admission and establishing personal records in national database

- Vourse registration, criterias for activity

- Net based tests, examinations in classrooms

- Reporting results in national database, system for book-keeping

- Tracking, follow-up, coaching, Uppföljning och coaching, reminders to students

- Information to students

2. The technique and logging in

3. Development projects and collaboration with institutions


Administrative system


Administrative system Interfaces for tutors, teachers and administrators


How do we do the examination?


How do we do the examination?

- I have teached Fido how to whistle.- I can not hear him whistling.- I said that I have teached him how to whistle, not that he

have learnt how to whistle.


Netbased examination- an integrated part of the students learning process


A final exam (written or oral). In principle a repetition of what have been done through the Internet. Here we evaluate how well the student fulfilled the learning outcomes. Grading. Identity control.

Identitety control and personal feedback


What is a “net based course”?

WWWVirtual

classroom

Textbooks Classroom

StudentINTERNET

Online

examination

Advanced

follow up

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