IPON research project

Teaching project: IPON: ICT based PlatfOrm for teaching Numerical mathematics (2000-2001)
IPON: ICT gebaseerd Platform voor Onderwijs in Numerieke wiskund (2000-2001)

Sponsored by

This is one of the STIHO projects of the Flemish Government

Related projects by

This is strongly related to the visnue and visnue-twee projects.

Description

A short description follows. For more information see the project's home page

Partners

• R.U.Gent (coordinator) [M. Van Daele] (project ILONA)
• K.U.Leuven [A. Bultheel] (project Visnue)
• Universiteit Antwerpen (IUA) [A. Cuyt] (project Arithmos)

Definition

Create platform for teaching the courses numerical analysis at the faculty of sciences and of applied sciences

Origin

Students should learn about problem solving and practical applications
Vertical integration of teaching and research
Horizontal integration between basic science courses
Reduce number of contact hours, increase self-learning activity

Public

Basic courses numerical mathematics, and later also more advanced courses.

Objectives

1. Possibility to ask questions about lecture notes, exercises, exams,...
2. A newsgroup to exchange ideas between students, teachers, assistents,...
3. Make some (animated) illustrations of the course available, links to available software (also professional), links to other courses,...
4. Extra exercises possibly with model solutions. Also exercises of non-academic nature, possibly with an open end.
5. Further references to more advanced methods, which may or may not be treated in other numerical courses, and links to professional sites.
6. Some self-test/evaluation system (a database of questions). These results should make it possible to remedy during teaching hours.
7. The availability of an IEEE compatible virtual machine.