Technology-Enhanced Mathematics Education for Creative Engineering Studies

This project explores the opportunities and challenges of integrating digital technologies in mathematics education in creative engineering studies. Students in such studies lack motivation and do not perceive the mathematics the same way as mathematics students do. Digital technologies offer new possibilities for mathematics representation, for interacting with mathematical concepts, and for positioning mathematics in the context of their studies. First, we are going to investigate how mathematics is used in their professional and academic work, and how important mathematical concepts are conceptualized. Then, we are going to apply this field data in designing learning technologies, which will be introduced in university classrooms. The effect of this introduction will be evaluated through educational design experiments.