It’s been a transformative year for the world at large – nowhere more so than for the education sector. How will COVID, distance learning, emerging technologies and the pressing need for digital upskilling continue to define the sector in 2021? Steve Wright asks the experts
The University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Mathematics has introduced a new course designed to help secondary school students whose education was interrupted abruptly by COVID-19 sharpen their mathematical skills ahead of commencing their post-secondary education. The new online, skills-based course, MTHEL 199, gives Waterloo’s incoming students extra practice in six branches of mathematics: inequalities and …
Online math lessons for kids and teens developed by the University of Waterloo saw a 200 per cent uptake in student engagement this past school year, especially during the early months of the pandemic. The Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing (CEMC) website says it had more than 10 million page views, with almost a third of those …
Interactive learning activities and student engagement are key to successful learning experiences. Burcu Karabina and Amanda Garcia integrated these components when developing MATH 237 for Spring 2020. This course, which has a current enrollment of approximately 600, was originally scheduled to go online in Fall 2020, but launched one term early due to the shift …
Dr. Steven Furino, Assistant Dean for Online Studies in the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo wanted to provide students with access to flexible and engaging courses, resources and opportunities to practice mathematics online.To achieve this goal, the University of Waterloo partnered with DigitalEd(link is external), a local software company, to develop a new …
The popularity of digital education has never been more pronounced, with the demand for high-quality competencies and skills at its peak. However, we are still far from unleashing the full potential of this mode of learning.
One of the great challenges for any educator is how do you teach and test students on real-world problems, not just on theoretical textbook examples. Real-world problems are exciting to solve but devilishly hard to assess, especially when many students are involved. Yet that’s just the approach that Mark Schneider is helping lead at NAIT, …
As education continues to evolve to meet the needs of a fast-paced world, digital education and its associated assets are transitioning from luxury to necessity. Modern digital tools can deliver education that rivals classroom education in quality, while improving accessibility and efficiency. Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) courses present more of a challenge due …
There is a new player in the growing market for online education, and it has hundreds of customers worldwide just months after it launched. DigitalEd, focusing on science, technology, engineering and math, wants to improve math education online for students worldwide and reduce the cost of education.
MATH ON WEB, STACK, and Maple T.A. are the prominent mathematics e-learning systems used in Japan. They can assess answers containing mathematical content freely written by students instead of only answers to multiple-choice questions.
DigitalEd, is formed to bring enhanced focus to online education for science, technology, engineering and mathematics subjects, has begun operations as a separate corporation. As its first official act of business, DigitalEd announced a new release of its Möbius platform for online education.
