Technological Tools to Learn Calculus
Por:
Perez Gomez, Gloria Patricia, Zea Restrepo, Claudia Maria, Esteban Duarte, Pedro Vicente, Zapata Rivera, Luis Felipe
Publicada:
1 ene 2015
Resumen:
Online learning tools have allowed professors to carry out their classes
in an interactive way, synchronic as well as asynchronic, giving them
the opportunity to explore from different points of view specific themes
or concepts, achieving greater dynamism in their classes through the
active participation of students. This article presents the results of
the implementation of an software tool for massive use designed with the
objective of allowing Engineering students to strengthen their basic
mathematical knowledge as well as to improve their results in courses
such as Calculus I and Mathematics I. These courses are part of the
first semesters of the syllabus for all undergraduate programs of the
School of Engineering, and are basic courses in the formation of an
engineer at Universidad EAFIT (Medellin, Colombia).
This software tool for massive use allows students to selfdiagnose, to
solve exercises with different levels of complexity and difficulty, to
visualize academic contents such as video classes and virtual resources,
and to know their evolution in the understanding of basic concepts in
calculus. On one hand, this facilitates the beginning of their studies
at the university. On the other, it gives the professor an initial
diagnose of the level students have to start the course so that
continuous analytics can be performed based on the learning process of
the student.
Furthermore, this article shows the results of a comparative analysis
done to two groups of students, a Control group and an Experimental
group, that took Calculus I as part of their undergraduate studies. The
experiment lasted two months with testing done at the beginning and at
the end of the course. The objective was to register the level of
knowledge acquired by the students and compare the differences between
the two groups, control and experimental. The testing also allowed the
progress of the student between tests to be measured, taking into
account that the experimental group had the opportunity to explore the
platform during this two-month period. Therefore, the analysis performed
served to gather information useful for evaluating the effectiveness of
the proposed system in the learning process of the students at the
University.
Filiaciones:
Perez Gomez, Gloria Patricia:
Univ EAFIT, Medellin, Colombia
Zea Restrepo, Claudia Maria:
Univ EAFIT, Medellin, Colombia
Esteban Duarte, Pedro Vicente:
Univ EAFIT, Medellin, Colombia
Zapata Rivera, Luis Felipe:
Univ EAFIT, Medellin, Colombia
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