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About the ASYMPTOTE Project
ASYMPTOTE [Adaptive Synchronous Mathematics Learning Paths for Online Teaching in Europe] is a project aiming at the development of an effective, powerful and user-friendly digital tool for online mathematics education. The ASYMPTOTE project enables teachers to conduct synchronous and adaptive math lessons online with a low barrier for students – only a smartphone is required on their side.
In the project, a web portal including mathematics tasks on secondary and university level will be created. In the web portal, teachers can select prepared tasks or create own tasks for their mathematics teaching. The students solve tasks which are provided by a digital learning path on their smartphone. Hereby, they receive systemic and synchronous feedback on their entered solution and work on tasks adopted to their individual learning progress. In addition, it provides a learning analytics tool for an effective diagnosis and evaluation of the students’ progress. It further allows assessment and the use of adaptive elements in online distance learning.
The ASYMPTOTE project is co-funded by the ERASMUS+ grant program of the European Union (grant no. 2020-1-DE01-KA226-HE-005738). Please find more information about the project in the following.
The consortium contains seven partners from five different European countries (Germany, Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain). All of them contribute to the project in different ways. We have experts for app programing, task design, intensive study programmes, validation and evaluation, dissemination, and for public relations. The partners are universities, a large teacher association and a company.
To develop an user-friedly platform for online mathematics education, the six following Intellectual Outputs (IOs) are defined:
- ASYMPTOTE Web Portal
- ASYMPTOTE App
- Generic Tasks on University Level
- Generic Tasks on Secondary Level & Handbook
- Long-Term Curriculum & MOOC
- Research & Validation
During the project, we carried out several meetings for the technical and content-related development of ASYMPTOTE system.
- Kick-Off Meeting: April 2021 | Online
- Annual Meeting I: October 2021 | Rhodes, Greece
- Annual Meeting II: April 2022 | Catania, Italy
- Final Meeting: February 2023 | Porto, Portugal
Information on each of the meetings can be found by clicking on the links provided.
For the project’s dissemination, we plan to hold three events to introduce the ASYMPTOTE system to student teachers, in-service teachers and university lecturers. Additionally, as part of IO5, a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) is developed and conducted. These events are as follows:
- Intensive Study Programme: September 2022 | Frankfurt, Germany
- Teacher Training: October 2022 | Granada, Spain
- Massive Open Online Course: October-December 2022 | Online
- ROSEDA Conference: February 2023 | Porto, Portugal
Information on each of the meetings can be found by clicking on the links provided.
The Team
Goethe University Frankfurt