E.T.S. de Ingeniería ICAI, Universidad Pontificia Comillas

Madrid, Spain

G. Rodríguez, A. de la Villa

E.P.S. de Zamora Universidad de Salamanca

Spain

EDUCATIONAL COOPERATION: AN INDISPENSABLE TOOL FOR

THE EUROPEAN AREA OF HIGHER EDUCATION.

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““The University is a The University is a place to learn not to place to learn not to

teach”teach”

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““We have to teach our We have to teach our students to learn”students to learn”

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NowNow

EHEA?EHEA?

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Student is the center.Student is the center.

Methodological innovation.Methodological innovation.

Competencies.Competencies.

A new scenario: The A new scenario: The European Higher European Higher Education AreaEducation Area

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A new scenario: The European A new scenario: The European Higher Education AreaHigher Education Area

• Mathematics is a service subject.

• Solid mathematical bases for a functional building.

• Modeling:

• Formulation in mathematical terms.

• Solution of the mathematical model.

• Interpretation and analysis

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Contents.Contents.

New training methods

Methodological changes.Methodological changes.

Tutorial activities.Tutorial activities.

Evaluation (assessments and more).Evaluation (assessments and more).

E and B-learningE and B-learning

New teaching channels.New teaching channels.

Different possibilities.

European projects: Xmath, dMath, EVLM.

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SOME ALTERNATIVES

Using CAS in “all” courses.

E and B learning materials.

MOODLE.

Some interesting webs.

Traditional materialsTraditional materials CAS materialsCAS materials

Cooperative materialCooperative materialFree materialsFree materialsJava Applets

E-books

Self-evaluation

ExperiencesExperiences MaterialsMaterialsCalculus course in

Comillas University

Calculus course using Moodle platform

ODE course with Mathematica or Maple

Centre of Mathematics at Salamanca University

Good cocktail!!!

EVLM Central Portal - INDEX.mht

EVLM PROJECT.mht

dMath.mht

ConclusionsConclusions New scenariosNew scenarios

New materialsNew materials

New methodsNew methods

New tasksNew tasks To open the collaborative work for To open the collaborative work for more countriesmore countries

Thank youThank you

gerardo@usal.esgerardo@usal.es

avilla@upcomillas.eavilla@upcomillas.ess