A paper by Bryan Dye. This has been submitted to the International Conference ICME-9 in Tokyo on July 31st to August 6th 2000. The section on dynamic geometry forms the basis of a presentation at the conference "Good Practice in the Use of ICT in Schools" at the RSA, London on March 6th 2000.
Abstract
1. A vision for future online materials
2. Current examplars: A Techologies, B Websites
3. Issues affecting the success of Online education
4. Conclusion
2. Current examplars
Exemplars of current attempts to move towards the vision described above use
technologies such as JavaScript, Java, VRML, plug-ins, Flash et cetera.
Commercial non-educational sites, such as
Yahoo, Microsoft and a host of
others, already make significant use of customizability. In general, sites on
the cutting edge of web design technology have moved a long way from the
original text and a few graphics of 15 years ago.
The third criterion, content, is still the most difficult to meet. Websites in
general tend to be varied in quality and good exemplars are isolated. Though a
particular site may include good individual examples of interactive
mathematics, it is still rare to find extensive and numerous examples on one
site.
Some current examples of good practice are reviewed here. The first group is
concerned with the types of online technology available to the mathematics
curriculum. The second group includes examples of sites using this technology.
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