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- Promoting audiovisual insights in math subjectsPublication . Soares, Filomena; Lopes, Ana PaulaIt seems that the digital world is all around us, wherever we turn to. Although not palpable, this world is already an important part of our everyday lives. When we talk specifically about the teaching/learning process we see that, at least in the last decade, the development of alternative and new strategies has been huge. The way students react to some methods and tactics is changing and engaging them in their own learning process is becoming a constant “challenge” to teachers, in all different educational levels. As Math professors in a High Education Institution where Mathematics is a basic and supporting course to other advanced (but non-Mathematical) ones, this so called “challenge” grows exponentially. In this paper, we analyze the impact of introducing and supporting some Math contents through video lectures, in a voice-over presentation style, based on animated arrangements, in our own mother language. These videos were developed for a first-year Math course in several Management degrees in the Tourism and Hospitality Area. The specific curricular items were chosen with a primary objective of trying to level up the mathematical competencies that are fundamental to the development of ‘mathematical literacy’ of our students. Our video lectures are available to students in our institutional Moodle platform, with all its features, along with other resources (as texts and proposed exercises) as well as in a YouTube channel. We will also describe students’ background areas of study in pre-university level and analyze if this has any influence in the way they interact with video-lectures in their own learning development and knowledge construction and report student’s perception of the eventual benefits of using this digital resource in engaging and promoting their self-responsibility in the learning process. Finally, we will analyze students’ evaluation of the videos recorded by the professors and uploaded to the Moodle platform and YouTube as a learning tool.
- Assessment experiences in a math course-grading questions and dilemmasPublication . Soares, Filomena Baptista; Nunes, Maria Paula; Lopes, Ana PaulaSimultaneously inherent “validation” tasks, as far as grading and assessing are concerned, fundamentally from the students’ point of view, but, sometimes, even from our own. The generalised Math “trauma” is a difficult start up invisible barrier that we must overcome every single semester, by implementing different strategies, developing new materials, motivating with digital and technological resources (using students’ digital skills), among many other tactics and schemes. But, in the end, the numerical grade – the knowledge and skills construction validation – must appear posted in the “system”. As Math lecturers in a Higher Education Institution, for more than twenty years, these problems are a daily challenge we face, and the issues we intend to analyse here, emerge as a consequence of a certain "emptiness" we feel regarding the assessment we have to carry out, in the sense that we still don’t have an answer to the following question: “Is it legitimate to "close your eyes" to the basic errors (some severe) when assessing learning outcomes in advanced subjects?” We teach at "end of the line", as far as General Mathematics is concerned, since our students are, essentially, from Management and Accounting Bachelor degrees. This paper will be structured in four distinct parts, starting with the Specific and General Outcomes and skills in the Math course in question, giving also a global vision of all its syllabus components and the teaching Methodologies implemented. Subsequently, we will refer to the coherence between teaching methods and the course learning objectives as well as their connection to the syllabus items. Finally we will go through a section of small questions and answers, with their respective detailed analysis, in order to provide an objective reading material, trying to promote a fruitful and open discussion on the subject.
- Flipped classroom with aPublication . Lopes, Ana Paula; Soares, Filomena BaptistaNowadays, the online environment and technology tools are changing the way professors are developing and presenting course curriculum. Alongside this growth, we have assisted to the fast development of distance learning tools such as Open Educational Resources (OER) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and the use of new teaching and learning models such the “Flipped Classroom” or “Inverted Classroom” model. This model is a pedagogical inversion of the traditional teaching paradigm: the main actions of the teaching and learning process that are used in classroom are now prepared by students previously before coming to class and provides the instructor with better opportunities for quality interaction with the students and helps students to develop a better understanding of the content and a deeper sense of community as a result of the student interaction in the course development and engagement. The purpose of this paper is to present an experimental Higher Educational plan called “Flipped Classroom with a MOOC”, within the project “Mathematics without STRESS - MOOC”, that is using flipped classroom model as a pedagogical strategy. Furthermore, it relates such strategy with active learning practices and discusses its effectiveness, investigating how the flipping affects student’s achievement and engagement. We also will present the results of a survey in which students were asked about “Flipped Learning with a MOOC” as a teaching method, using their experience from the course Mathematics Zero
- Flipping a mathematics course, a blended learning approachPublication . Lopes, Ana Paula; Soares, Filomena BaptistaFlipped classroom pedagogy has become popular in several different courses in Higher Educational Institutions (HEI). Important advantages being the increased level of lecturer and student interaction, which can have a strong impact on students’ motivation, engagement, satisfaction and performance. A flipped based experiment was implemented in 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 in a Mathematics Course, at the Institute of Accounting and Administration of Porto (ISCAP), using Moodle quizzes reinforced by in-class activities and support via PowerPoint with audio support, YouTube tutorial videos and online reading materials before and after classes. In this new organizational design for the teaching and learning paradigm, as its name transmits, there was pedagogical switch of the traditional academic procedure as students’ first contact with the subjects and themes was made outside the “four wall classroom bounds”. Teachers’ role was transposed into a kind of guide and facilitator, indicating the way to go, avoiding to walk in a parallel path, or even ahead, but indicating the way to go, motivating students in their own knowledge construction, letting them lead the way, following and supporting, constantly and carefully monitoring their learning outcomes, only interfering in the learning process as an anchor where students can rely, adjusting the right paths when they seem to deviate from the predefined learning goals. Classroom time was consumed with open discussions, solving tasks and application problems, clarifying the supporting fundaments, in order to improve students’ engagement into their learning process in a collaborative environment. The operational stages and procedures will be described and, additionally, several results obtained during its implementation will be presented.
- “Flipped classroom with a MOOC” an e-learning model into a mathematics coursePublication . Lopes, Ana Paula; Soares, Filomena BaptistaNowadays, the online environment and technology tools are changing the way professors are developing and presenting course curriculum. Alongside this growth, we have assisted to the fast development of distance learning tools such as Open Educational Resources (OER) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and the use of new teaching and learning models such the “Flipped Classroom” or “Inverted Classroom” model. This model is a pedagogical inversion of the traditional teaching paradigm: the main actions of the teaching and learning process that are used in classroom are now prepared by students previously before coming to class and provides the instructor with better opportunities for quality interaction with the students and helps students to develop a better understanding of the content and a deeper sense of community as a result of the student interaction in the course development and engagement. The purpose of this paper is to present an experimental Higher Educational plan called “Flipped Classroom with a MOOC”, within the project “Mathematics without STRESS - MOOC”, that is using flipped classroom model as a pedagogical strategy. Furthermore, it relates such strategy with active learning practices and discusses its effectiveness, investigating how the flipping affects student’s achievement and engagement. We also will present the results of a survey in which students were asked about “Flipped Learning with a MOOC” as a teaching method, using their experience from the course Mathematics Zero.
- Perception and performance in a flipped financial mathematics classroomPublication . Lopes, Ana Paula; Soares, FilomenaThe “flipped” classroom model is a new organizational design for the teaching and learning paradigm, as its name transmits, stands for the pedagogical switch of the traditional academic procedure as students’ first contact with the subjects is made outside the “four-wall classroom bounds”. Teachers’ role is transposed into a kind of guide and facilitator, indicating the way to go, avoiding to walk in a parallel path, or even ahead, but indicating the way to go, motivating students in their own knowledge construction, letting them lead the way, following and supporting, constantly and carefully monitoring their learning outcomes. Classroom time is consumed with open discussions, solving tasks and application problems, clarifying the supporting fundaments, in order to improve students’ engagement into their learning process in a collaborative environment. A flipped model was implemented into a Financial Mathematics Course at ISCAP and the sample of our study consisted of 803 students, enrolled in 2014, 2015 and 2016. The main purpose of this paper is to investigate how the incorporation of the flipped classroom model into a Financial Mathematics class, affected students’ class training, learning, and achievement. The results obtained with this approach have shown a positive impact on students’ achievement overall.
- Promoting audiovisual insights in math subjectsPublication . Soares, Filomena Baptista; Lopes, Ana PaulaIt seems that the digital world is all around us, wherever we turn to. Although not palpable, this world is already an important part of our everyday lives. When we talk specifically about the teaching/learning process we see that, at least in the last decade, the development of alternative and new strategies has been huge. The way students react to some methods and tactics is changing and engaging then into their own learning process is becoming a constant “challenge” to teachers, in all different educational levels. As Math professors in a High Education Institution where Mathematics is a basic and supporting course to other advanced (but non-Mathematical) ones, this so called “challenge” grows exponentially. In this paper we analyse the impact of introducing and supporting some Math contents through video lectures, in a voice over presentation style, based on animated arrangements, in our own mother language. These videos were developed for a first-year Math course in several Management degrees in the Tourism and Hospitality Area. The specific curricular items were chosen with a primary objective of trying to level up the mathematical competencies that are fundamental to the development of ‘mathematical literacy’ of our students. Our video lectures are available to students in our institutional Moodle platform, with all its features, along with other resources (as texts and proposed exercises) as well as in a YouTube channel. We will also describe students’ background areas of study in preuniversity level and analyse if this has any influence in the way they interact with video-lectures in their own learning development and knowledge construction and report student’s perception of the eventual benefits of using this digital resource in engaging and promoting their self-responsibility in the leaning process. Finally, we will analyse students’ evaluation of the videos recorded by the professors and uploaded to the Moodle platform and YouTube as a learning tool.
- Flipping a financial mathematics course in a higher education institution (HEI)Publication . Lopes, Ana Paula; Soares, Filomena BaptistaIn the past few years, a new model for organizing the educational process in Higher Educational Institutions (HEI) arose and has been attracting the attention of many researchers and educators all over the world. This model, called “Flipped Classroom” or “Inverted Classroom”, is a pedagogical inversion of the traditional teaching paradigm: the main actions of the teaching and learning process that are used in classroom are now prepared by students previously before coming to class. As a result, when students come into class they already know what is the main issue and more important problems that will be under scope. Classroom is used to work on problems, advanced concepts, and engage in collaborative learning. This implies a much more active role for students and a more challenging mission for lecturers. The purpose of this paper is to present a Financial Mathematics Course in Polytechnic of Porto (P. Porto) that is using flipped classroom model as a pedagogical strategy. Moreover, it relates such strategy with active learning practices and discusses its effectiveness, investigating how the flipping affects student’s achievement and engagement in this course.
- MatActiva - divulgação de experiências de inovação didática em matemática com recurso às tecnologiasPublication . Paula Lopes, Ana; Abreu, Anabela; Torres, Cristina; Soares, Filomena Baptista; Vieira, Isabel; Babo, Lurdes; Moreira Silva, Manuel; Silva, Paulino; Pinto, SusanaO progresso contínuo da sociedade exige de todos os atores uma atualização dinâmica e constante, quer em termos de acompanhamento e, até mesmo, de adaptação. No que respeita à educação, por muito atualizados que estejamos em relação aos conteúdos, às estratégias didáticas e aos recursos tecnológicos, somos inevitavelmente forçados a nos adaptar a novos paradigmas, sendo levados a reformular os métodos de ensino tradicionais. Neste contexto, surge o contributo das plataformas de e-learning, onde docentes e estudantes têm à sua disposição novos meios de dinamizar o processo ensino e aprendizagem, uma vez que estas plataformas podem ser definidas como um ambiente virtual de apoio ao ensino. No ano 2003, o Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto (ISCAP), integrado no Instituto Politécnico do Porto (IPP), introduziu a plataforma Moodle. Tendo como base toda a experiência de utilização desta plataforma, surgiu em 2007 um projeto online da área científica de Matemática, o MatActiva (www.matactiva.com), com o objetivo de apoiar os estudantes que apresentavam dificuldades nesta área. Procurou-se, no concurso Partilha e Divulgação de Experiências em Inovação Didática no Ensino Superior Português, não só a possibilidade de dar continuidade a este projeto bem como a divulgação do mesmo e dos resultados nele obtido.
- Flipping a mathematics course, a blended learning approachPublication . Lopes, Ana Paula; Soares, Filomena BaptistaFlipped classroom pedagogy has become popular in several different courses in Higher Educational Institutions (HEI). Important advantages being the increased level of lecturer and student interaction, which can have a strong impact on students’ motivation, engagement, satisfaction and performance. A flipped based experiment was implemented in 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 in a Mathematics Course, at the Institute of Accounting and Administration of Porto (ISCAP), using Moodle quizzes reinforced by in-class activities and support via PowerPoint with audio support, YouTube tutorial videos and online reading materials before and after classes. In this new organizational design for the teaching and learning paradigm, as its name transmits, there was pedagogical switch of the traditional academic procedure as students’ first contact with the subjects and themes was made outside the “four wall classroom bounds”. Teachers’ role was transposed into a kind of guide and facilitator, indicating the way to go, avoiding to walk in a parallel path, or even ahead, but indicating the way to go, motivating students in their own knowledge construction, letting them lead the way, following and supporting, constantly and carefully monitoring their learning outcomes, only interfering in the learning process as an anchor where students can rely, adjusting the right paths when they seem to deviate from the predefined learning goals. Classroom time was consumed with open discussions, solving tasks and application problems, clarifying the supporting fundaments, in order to improve students’ engagement into their learning process in a collaborative environment. The operational stages and procedures will be described and, additionally, several results obtained during its implementation will be presented.
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