Improved training in mathematics for engineering students: e-courses
| Parent link: | 11th International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED2017), 6-8 March, 2017, Valencia, Spain: proceedings. [P. 6546-6551].— , 2017 |
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| Summary: | Title screen The paper considers e-courses implemented to encourage student's self-study and describes the case study of National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, where e-courses are intensively used to teach mathematics. Currently, there is a special focus on innovation advancement in engineering education. Today's engineering education needs continuous improvement due to technological, economic and social changes, internationalization of education, economic globalization. Mathematical disciplines play an important role in engineering education, and mathematical tools used for topical issues' research ensure the development of global science. Today's students face challenges in studying mathematical disciplines, which causes poor academic progress, high percentage of expelling and transferring to other educational programs (economics, law, humanities - up to 40%). This issue is also topical beyond the Russian Federation: in the USA about 40% of engineering students fail to complete their studies or change the professional field, while in Europe this number ranges between 15-40%. Moreover, new educational standards and two-cycle degree system of higher education lead to the reduction in the number of academic hours for mathematics. As a result, student's self-study becomes even more important. To ensure the high quality of mathematics training, it is necessary to focus on teaching and learning methods. It is urgent to use innovative approaches to teaching mathematics. The ordinary teaching methods fail to be efficient, and one needs to implement new “unconventional” educational tools, i.e. active teaching and learning methods. One of the most efficient methods of teaching fundamental disciplines is introduction of e-courses. Режим доступа: по договору с организацией-держателем ресурса |
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2017
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/inted.2017.1511 |
| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| KOHA link: | https://koha.lib.tpu.ru/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=654046 |