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DESCRIPTION:The mathematical education of engineers and scientists is often
  considered as a distinct area of mathematics education. The School of Mat
 hematics\, at the University of Edinburgh\, has two pairs of courses speci
 fically designed for first year engineering and chemistry students. Around
  500 students complete them during each semester.\n \nAs a response to COV
 ID-19 pandemic\, during the summer of 2020\, the University of Edinburgh a
 nd Loughborough University collaborated to develop interactive online work
 books for the mathematics education of STEM students. Our approach was to 
 use the STACK online assessment system and combine our experience gained w
 ith running the fully online course "Fundamentals of Algebra and Calculus"
  (FAC) with materials from the HELM (Helping Engineers Learn Mathematics) 
 project workbooks.\n \nEach interactive workbook is a Moodle quiz with tex
 tbook-style written content\, worked examples\, simple tasks and practice 
 questions. Almost all questions are randomised so each student will have a
  collection of questions which use different values. After submitting a wo
 rkbook\, students can return to it\, either to review the written material
  or to reattempt the questions. The workbooks are used as an introduction 
 to each week's material and students can consult the textbook for more adv
 anced topics and further exercises. Students receive immediate feedback on
  their attempt which promotes students' engagement and learning through as
 sessment. \n\nDeveloping the workbooks was a significant effort which requ
 ired time and people. Student evaluations rated the HELM workbooks as a va
 luable and successful resource.\n \nThe plan is to make a general release 
 of the workbooks in January 2022. Partners have agreed to release the resu
 lting online versions of each workbook under Creative Commons licence\, "C
 C BY".
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SUMMARY:Developing interactive online workbooks for engineering and STEM ma
 thematical education. - Dr Konstantina Zerva
URL:https://pretalx.ellak.gr/mootgr21/talk/BVRGHL/
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