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A Virtual Collaborative Environment Helps University Students to Learn Maths

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Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2010)

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The technological advances taking place in recent times have led us to consider the use of computers in classrooms as an indispensable tool. This paper details the experience of last year related to the use of different forms of interaction among students and new technological tools. The proposed learning system allows university students to go into computers and specific software in depth get. The use of new tools could enhance the teaching-learning process and adapt it to the new situation of Spanish university system. We have used both, an online platform and specifically designed programs to solve mathematical problems and learn Mathematics.

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  1. Department of Applied Mathematics, E.T.S.I.I. de Béjar, University of Salamanca, C/ Fernando Ballesteros, 37700, Béjar, Salamanca, Spain

    Araceli Queiruga-Dios, Ascensión Hernández-Encinas & Isabel Visus-Ruiz

  2. Department of Applied Mathematics, E.P.S. de Ávila, University of Salamanca, C/ Hornos Caleros 50, 05003, Ávila, Spain

    Ángel Martín del Rey

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  1. Department of Systems and Informatics, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Rua do Vale de Chaves - Estefanilha, 2910-761, Setúbal, Portugal

    Joaquim Filipe

  2. Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication Department of Systems and Informatics, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Rua do Vale de Chaves - Estefanilha, 2910-761, Setúbal, Portugal

    José Cordeiro

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Queiruga-Dios, A., Hernández-Encinas, A., Visus-Ruiz, I., del Rey, Á.M. (2011). A Virtual Collaborative Environment Helps University Students to Learn Maths. In: Filipe, J., Cordeiro, J. (eds) Enterprise Information Systems. ICEIS 2010. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 73. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19802-1_41

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