Culturally Aware Mathematics Education Technology

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Author(s): Erica Melis (German Research Center in Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH), Germany), Giorgi Goguadze (University of Saarland, Germany), Paul Libbrecht (German Research Center in Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH), Germany)and Carsten Ullrich (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 15
Source title: Handbook of Research on Culturally-Aware Information Technology: Perspectives and Models
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Emmanuel G. Blanchard (McGill University, Canada)and Danièle Allard (Sherbrooke University, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-883-8.ch025

Keywords: Human Aspects of Technology / Information Science Reference / Social Sciences & Humanities

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Education and learning take place in a situation that is heavily influenced by the culture. The learners’ cultural context affects cognitive processes in learning. Hence, to improve the conditions for learning, e-learning environments and their contents have to interact with the learner in a culturally appropriate way. Therefore, an e-learning system intended for cross-cultural usage has to adapt to the students’ diverse cultural background. For the enculturation of the European platform for mathematics learning, ActiveMath, a number of dimensions are adapted culturally. These are: presentation of system and learning material, terminology, selection and sequencing of learning objects, interaction, and learning scenarios. This chapter describes ActiveMath’ enculturation: computational model, computational techniques, and the empirical basis for the cultural adaptation.

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