Rejuvenating the HELM Workbooks as Online STACK Quizzes in 2020

Authors

  • Konstantina Zerva School of Mathematics, The University of Edinburgh
  • Christopher Sangwin School of Mathematics, The University of Edinburgh
  • Ian Jones Mathematics Education Centre, Loughborough University
  • David Quinn School of Mathematics, The University of Edinburgh

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v17i23.35923

Keywords:

Mathematical education of engineering undergraduates, online assessment, curriculum development

Abstract


HELM (Helping Engineers Learn Mathematics) was a three-year project undertaken by a consortium of five English universities between 2002 and 2005. HELM released a range of workbooks and online resources, designed to enhance the mathematical education of engineering undergraduates, which were well received, and widely used. All that remained in 2020 from HELM were PDFs of “student workbooks” which could not be edited. Since 2018, the University of Edinburgh has developed and taught fully online courses for university mathematics in which all materials form part of coherently organised digital exercises and expositions. The work reported in this paper combines the two approaches: we take a similar approach to the existing successful Edinburgh course and rejuvenate the static HELM materials by creating online resources designed to support the mathematical education of engineering undergraduates. The paper describes the rationale, educational design, practical execution and preliminary analysis of the workbooks’ usage at the University of Edinburgh.

HELM (Helping Engineers Learn Mathematics) was a three-year project undertaken by a consortium of five English universities between 2002 and 2005. HELM released a range of workbooks and online resources, designed to enhance the mathematical education of engineering undergraduates, which were well received, and widely used. All that remained in 2020 from HELM were PDFs of “student workbooks” which could not be edited. Since 2018, the University of Edinburgh has developed and taught fully online courses for university mathematics in which all materials form part of coherently organised digital exercises and expositions. The work reported in this paper combines the two approaches: we take a similar approach to the existing successful Edinburgh course and rejuvenate the static HELM materials by creating online resources designed to support the mathematical education of engineering undergraduates. The paper describes the rationale, educational design, practical execution and preliminary analysis of the workbooks’ usage at the University of Edinburgh.

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2022-12-08

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Zerva, K., Sangwin, C., Jones, I., & Quinn, D. (2022). Rejuvenating the HELM Workbooks as Online STACK Quizzes in 2020. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 17(23), pp. 69–88. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v17i23.35923

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Vol. 17 No. 23 (2022)

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