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International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, Madrid, Spain, November 16-18, 2009 • BLENDED-LEARNING IN ENGINEERINGBASED ON PRESENTATIONS MADE WITH THE AID OF A COMPUTER ALGEBRA SYSTEM • José C. Valverde • Department of Mathematics • University of Castilla-La Mancha • Jose.Valverde@uclm.es

Introduction • European Higher Education Area (EHEA) has forced changes in teaching methodology. • Students have to become learners and so their roles have to be transformed into active thinkers better than passive listeners. • Teachers have to turn into guides who lead learners to relevant information, helping them to find and use it, in order to acquire the knowledge and the expected skills. • Evaluation of learning has to be focused on the learners’ academic work.

Introduction • Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is so crucial: • Computer Algebra System (CAS) presentations • + • Course Management System (CMS) • _______________________________________________________ • Improvements in teaching/learning Mathematics in Engineering • + • Guarantees of relevant aspects for this new EHEA methodology • + • Allows to achieve the new requirements of learning

Introduction • This work compares the traditional method in teaching/learning Mathematics, against a computer/network assisted method • The improvements of the last method will be treated and it will be explained why the traditional method will be less appropriate in the future EHEA. • The work is based on the experiences at the Faculty of Computer Science of the University of Castilla-La Mancha • It will be shown an example of this presentations included in our experience

Table of contents • Preliminaries • Aims and results of the experience • Example of a presentation • Conclusions

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