Thinking of Everyone: Responsive Web Design for a Math OER Project

Autor:	Hongxin Yan, Lawrence Poon
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	World Wide Web Responsive web design Multimedia business.industry MathML Online learning Educational resources business computer.software_genre Computer users computer
Zdroj:	Emerging Issues in Smart Learning ISBN: 9783662441879 ICSLE
DOI:	10.1007/978-3-662-44188-6_46
Popis:	Presenting mathematical symbols and equations for online learning has been a challenge for educators and web developers. An open educational resource (OER) math website called Math Support for Calculus was built in 2008 at Athabasca University with the goal of supporting learners in first year undergraduate calculus courses. In the project, Flash was used to develop learning activities, for computer users. As the online learning environment is becoming diverse and ubiquitous, this OER project requires a new website with responsive design and a cross-browser mathematical display engine. In this paper, the problems that learners encountered while accessing the current website are described, the rationales for choosing Drupal, MathJax and MathML as the framework to develop this new site are discussed, and the advantages of using MathJax over Flash are analyzed.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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