The authors are grateful to FCT for financial support through national funds UIDB/05757/2020.
Universities are encouraging the implementation of innovative methodologies and
teaching strategies to develop an interactive and appealing educational environment
where students are the focus of the learning process. In such a personalised learning
environment, an increase of the students’ engagement and the improvement of the
outcomes arise. MathE has been developed to help achieve this goal. Based on collaborative
procedures, internet resources – both pre-existing and freely available as
well as resources specifically conceived by the project team – and communities of
practices, MathE intends to be a tool to nurture and stimulate the learning of Mathematics
in higher education. This study introduces and describes the MathE platform,
which is divided into three sections: Student’s Assessment, Library and Community
of Practice. An in-depth description of the Student’s Assessment section is presented
and an analysis of the results obtained from students, when using this feature of the
platform, is also provided. After this, and based on the answers to an online survey,
the impact of the MathE platform among students and teachers of eight countries is
shown. Although the number of collected results is still scarce, it allows the recognition
of a trend regarding the use of the material of the Student’s Assessment section
for autonomous study. The results indicate the platform is well organized, with a
satisfactory amount and diversity of questions and good interconnection between
the various parts. Nevertheless, both teachers and students indicate that more questions
should be introduced. The overall opinion about the MathE platform is very
favourable
