The Preparatory Courses for the State Examinations of Mathematics in the Ortus Website Environment
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference "Teaching Mathematics: Retrospectie and Perspectives' 2010
Sarmīte Čerņajeva, Anda Zeidmane

During the period when there is a discussion in Latvia on the higher educational establishment’s quality and its development Riga Technical university (RTU) commencing with 2007/2008 academical year has transitioned to RTU united e-learning system using RTU website ORTUS which is based on e-learning program MOODLE (Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment). The main task of ORTUS (www.ortus.lv), web site is to provide support for the scientific and administrative processes by facilitating effective communication. The establishment of ORTUS web site is advantageous to the students and the administration as it improves the inner communication of the university by providing the administration with the necessary feedback from the students. At the moment there are integrated several subsystems which provide with united access to RTU e – services, giving advantages to the students, the lecturers and the administration by improving the university’s inner communication, as well as providing with the opportunity for the administration to receive feedback from the students. RTU has also created an especially adapted ORTUS website for the secondary level students where they can get acquainted with virtual environment of the higher education and find out all the important information they require a free of charge e-study’s system channel where they can easily access and use the materials prepared by the lecturers and which could be of a great assistance in the preparation for the state examinations in mathematics, physics, chemistry and the English language, tests for the readiness assessment in these subjects, information on the RTU preparatory courses as well as the possibility to apply to the courses online etc. In order to motivate secondary school graduates to choose exact sciences, the school administration system „E-classroom” has started long-term cooperation with the Riga Technical University (RTU) website ”ORTUS”. The main task of the cooperation is to provide science teachers with teaching materials and the e-environment for more effective communication with students.


Keywords
Mathematics Studies, Moodle, Software Mathematica

Čerņajeva, S., Zeidmane, A. The Preparatory Courses for the State Examinations of Mathematics in the Ortus Website Environment. In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference "Teaching Mathematics: Retrospectie and Perspectives', Latvia, Daugavpils, 6-7 May, 2010. Daugavpils: Daugavpils University Academic Press „Saule”, 2010, pp.16-17.

Publication language
English (en)
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