Experience in Teaching Mathematical Disciplines Using E-learning and Distance Learning Technologies during the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Main Authors: Yekaterina Kosova, Yuliya Dyulicheva
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: The Fund for Promotion of Internet media, IT education, human development «League Internet Media» 2020-05-01
• Series: Современные информационные технологии и IT-образование
• Subjects: e-learning; distance learning technologies; mathematical education; web accessibility; covid-19
• Online Access: http://sitito.cs.msu.ru/index.php/SITITO/article/view/622

The experience of e-learning (EL) with distance learning technologies (DLT) implementing for teaching of "Numerical methods" in the Mathematics and Computer Science department of V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University during COVID-19 pandemic period from March to May 2020 is studied in the article. 107 students from third course that learn in the direction of 01.03.01 Mathematics, 01.03.02 Applied Mathematics and Computer science, 01.03.04 Applied Mathematics are participated in the experiment. As the main platform, the social network VKontakte (VK) with Discord, Youtube and HP Reveal platforms are used. The author's video lecture is the main type of educational content in the developed e-learning model. The students feedback is realized through discussion in the text and voice chats, video presentations of programming code for numerical methods realization, the tasks results demonstration in hand-written form (photo of problems decision) or in print format, in screenshots or video explanations including elements of the augmented reality technologies. The effectiveness of the developed methodological approach is confirmed by the results of students questionnaires (81,7% of the students that participate in the anonymous questionnaire estimate the quality of the numerical methods teaching as excellent) and the academic performance growth based on the tests results using the peer review method (the growth of the academic performance on average is 32,2%). It is confirmed that for e-learning organizing for mathematical disciplines teaching in the educational process planning, training contents and tests preparing the teachers need to use the interactive learning and multimodality principles, as well as web accessibility requirements. The best method of new learning content presentation is the author's screencast video lecture (the choice of 83,7% students) accompanied with subtitles and detailed explanations of the lecturer (audio descriptions) and text analogue (the lecture notes or verbatim report). The new e-learning model can be transferred to the MOOC format without significant logical changes or time costs.