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An overwhelming problem in Math Curriculums in Higher Education Institutions (HEI), we are daily
facing in the last decade, is the substantial differences in Math background of our students. When you
try to transmit, engage and teach subjects/contents that your “audience” is unable to respond to and/or
even understand what we are trying to convey, it is somehow frustrating. In this sense, the Math
projects and other didactic strategies, developed through Learning Management System Moodle,
which include an array of activities that combine higher order thinking skills with math subjects and
technology, for students of HE, appear as remedial but important, proactive and innovative measures
in order to face and try to overcome these considerable problems. In this paper we will present some
of these strategies, developed in some organic units of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (IPP).
But, how “fruitful” are the endless number of hours teachers spent in developing and implementing
these platforms? Do students react to them as we would expect? Do they embrace this opportunity to
overcome their difficulties? How do they use/interact individually with LMS platforms? Can this
environment that provides the teacher with many interesting tools to improve the teaching – learning
process, encourages students to reinforce their abilities and knowledge? In what way do they use
each available material – videos, interactive tasks, texts, among others? What is the best way to
assess student’s performance in these online learning environments? Learning Analytics tools
provides us a huge amount of data, but how can we extract “good” and helpful information from them?
These and many other questions still remain unanswered but we look forward to get some help in, at
least, “get some drafts” for them because we feel that this “learning analysis”, that tackles the path
from the objectives to the actual results, is perhaps the only way we have to move forward in the
“best” learning and teaching direction.
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Online learning Mathematics Innovation Technology in teaching and learning Learning analytics