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Cristina M.R. Caridade
Coimbra Institute of Engineering, Portugal, Portugal
The teaching and learning mathematics have to be adapted to the new attitude of the engineering students in order to guide them in their own learning process. Today, in higher education, it is common to use support tools e-learning, to increase the interaction between teacher and students, allowing for a more flexible learning.
In order to develop online interactive modules of learning mathematics that can motivate students in their teaching/learning process and increasing the levels of success, it was created e-MAIO (Interactive Learning Modules Online). e-MAIO is a set of interactive online modules of learning mathematics where students can develop an autonomous and collaborative learning, and where they can use the computer to build knowledge, so appealing to its accountability in the individual learning process (Figure 1).
Figure 1. e-MAIO project.
Its design was developed with the main objective to capture the various learning styles and respect the form of learning of each student, and to do it, we used a diversification of activities and materials. Students can access to e-MAIO during class, at home or anywhere at anytime. The activities presented are simple and concise with several examples solved so that students become familiar with this type of environment.
This learning modules, supported by Moodle platform have been used in b-learning system for teaching and learning mathematics in electrotechnical engineering of the Institute of Engineering of Coimbra. This project was motivated by the desire to implement some tools for innovative and attractive teaching, but also because we believe that its use leads students to act responsibly in their learning process.