Web-based mathematics education: MeML design and implementation

Author

Wang, Paul S. ; Zhou, Yi ; Zou, Xiao

Author_Institution

Inst. for computational Math., Kent State Univ., OH, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

5-7 April 2004

Firstpage

169

Abstract

The Web-based mathematics education framework (WME) aims to create a Web for mathematics education. WME empowers mathematics teachers, learning content developers, as well as dynamic mathematics computation and education service providers, to deliver an unprecedented mathematics learning environment to students and educators. Main WME components include the Mathematics Education Markup Language (MeML), the MeML processor (Woodpecker, browser plug-in), and on-Web Mathematics Education Services. MeML provides effective and expressive markup elements to represent and structure mathematics education pages that may also contain XHTML and MathML elements. Woodpecker enables regular Web browsers to process MeML pages and to interact with a wide variety of mathematics computation and education services deployed on the Web.

Keywords

Internet; computer aided instruction; mathematics computing; online front-ends; page description languages; MathML elements; Mathematics Education Markup Language; MeML design; MeML processor; WME components; WME framework; Web browsers; Web-based mathematics education; Woodpecker; XHTML elements; browser plug-in; dynamic mathematics computation; education service providers; learning content developers; mathematics education pages; mathematics learning environment; mathematics teachers; on-Web mathematics education services; Access protocols; Collaborative work; Computer science; Databases; Distributed computing; Encoding; Internet; Libraries; Markup languages; Mathematics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology: Coding and Computing, 2004. Proceedings. ITCC 2004. International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2108-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITCC.2004.1286445

Filename

1286445