Activities

February 2019

• 14th & 15th of February 2019 , iTEM Kick Off Meeting, Department of Electronic Engineering, School of Applied Sciences, Technological Educational Institute of Crete

• Preparation of "Individual travel report" for staff participating in the Kick Off Meeting within the iTEM project.

• Preparation of "Timesheet" and "Joint Declaration" for staff engaged in iTEM project

April 2019

• Install and testing mobile apps, CAS on-line and classical CAS platforms.

• Preparing about the maths tests on UP for university access systems around Europe for Survey.

• Logistic regression for predicting students at risk.

• Prepare the materials for upload in web www.uni-pr.edu/item.

• Logistic regression for predicting students at risk.

• Prepared some real life problems for Linear Algebra

• Prepared some real life problems for Calculus

• Analysis mobile Math’s software for High Education

• Prepare answers for report for Task Group #1: Detailed Syllabi

• Prepare answers for report for Task Group #3: Suggesting Problems

• Prepare answers for report for Task Group #4: Students who Fall Behind

• Prepare answers for report for Task Group #5: Tracking Software (Predicting Students at Risk)

• Informative meetings with the responsibility of Erasmus+ Office staff in Kosovo, management of UP and implementation group of project ITEM in UP.

June 2019

Working meeting (workshop) for problem analyses applicable by Linear Algebra and Calculus through Math software tools

On the frame of the Erasmus Plus Capacity Building For Higher Education, ‘Innovative Teaching Education in Mathematics’ – iTEM, we travelled to the Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic, to participate in the 1st iTEM Progress Meeting.

The latter had a duration of two days (from the 17th of June 2019 until/and the 18th of June 2019).

During the meeting are presented and discussed:

Work-Package One: Preparation (I)–Presentations from the Assigned Tasks Coordinators. Preparation (II)- From.

Presentations from the Assigned Tasks Coordinators. Closing Discussions – Conclusions.

Work–Package Two: Development (Presentations order has been send as an email).

Work–Package Three: Quality Plan & Actions.

Work-Package Four: Dissemination & Exploitation Plan.

Work - Package Five: Management.

Decision of the Next Meeting & Evaluation of the meeting.

Participants from all the partner Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) participated in this two day progress meeting that hosted by the Biomedical Engineering Group of the CVUT in Prague, Czech Republic.

The event took place from the 18th of June and its proceedings completed by the 19th of June 2019.

The main objectives of this progress meeting were the following:

1.To review and report the progress of the assignments have been distributed to the partners after the kick off meeting in Crete (14th and 15th of February 2019)

2.To report the progress of the deliverables of all the work packages for the 1st six months of the project

3.To plan the actions for the next six months with special attention & priority on the following:

a.The introduction of the examples from real life problems & other scientific topics into the curricula of Linear Algebra I and Calculus I. Four examples should be introduced by partner (advisory and test Institutions)

b.The preparation of the four test Institutions (National University of Uzbekistan, Hadassah College, University of Mitrovica and Universum College) to start the 1st Pilot Phase with the start of the Semester (September or October depending on the Institution). The preparation mainly involves the engagement of

(a) the examples through teaching;

(b) the frequent testing & evaluation as a monitoring and better math understanding tool;

(c) the use of Moodle as platform to upload the training material and also use its widgets to be able to monitor students that are on risk to fall back

c.The agreement of the dates of the next Training & Progress Meeting event in Copenhagen and the Monitoring Visits in the Test Institutions.

Preparation of "Individual travel report" for staff participating in the second "1st iTEM Progress Meeting" within the iTEM project.

Preparation of "Timesheet" and "Joint Declaration" for staff engaged in iTEM project

August 2019

• Working meeting with the math professors (team members) of the iTEM project from FECE, to analyze the progress of the assignments

• Prepared examples from Real Life from Calculus 1 for Functions and Generalities: Basic notions on functions and Graph of standard functions.

• Using software tools for testing prepared examples from Real Life from Calculus 1 for Functions and Generalities: Basic notions on functions and Graph of standard functions.

October 2019

• Preparing for visit in Alborg University- Copenhagen.

• Participated in 2nd Progress Meeting iTEM Project on October 2019, Copenhagen, Aalborg University Denmark 2019

January 2020

• The Moodle Platform installation and configuration in UP for iTEM project

March-June 2020 (the period of global pandemic COVID-19-coronavirus)

• Second Online training for using Wolfram software (professors and student)

• Math teacher are using Wolfram software with student in lecture (Wolfram licenses are funded by the iTEM project)

• Meetings with project partners were held online.

• Lectures with students in Mathematics 2 (Calculus) were held online.

• Math professors have organized classes with students based on training held in Copenhagen.

• Student projects are divided based on PBL and POBL techniques.

• Exercises and tasks were held with students using Wolfram software have been maintained.

• Several frequent tests have been conducted with students, but not as much as required by the project due to COVID-19 pandemic and online work.