Mathematics e-course for part-time students

Abstract

The development of information technologies and the improvement of both students’ and lecturers’ computer literacy open the possibilities to improve the methodology of teaching Mathematics and to conform to various students’ needs. E-learning has already been applied for teaching Mathematics and Statistics course of first- year students at Aleksandras Stulginskis University for several years. This year it has been launched for teaching Mathematics to students of all faculties. The article analyzes the reasons for launching Mathematics course teaching through Moodle environment to AS university part-time students. What is more, it presents both advantages and disadvantages of Mathematics e-teaching. It also presents and analyzes Mathematics teaching material and methodology. Some problems have occurred in the process of creation and administration of Mathematics e-teaching. For instance, these are unfitted tools for evaluation of students’ mathematical achievements, lecturers’ qualms of efficiency and expedience of Mathematics teaching at a distance, students’ insufficient mathematical literacy. One of the advantages is cooperation between lecturers while launching e-courses, i.e. Mathematics topics are analogous for all ASU first-year students only the scope is different, thus lecturers can share teaching material, information, etc.