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A NEW APPROACH TO TEACHING MATHEMATICS AT THE UNIVERSITY TODAY - THE TIME OF COVID 19
West Bohemia University (CZECH REPUBLIC)
About this paper:
Appears in: INTED2021 Proceedings
Publication year: 2021
Pages: 3569-3574
ISBN: 978-84-09-27666-0
ISSN: 2340-1079
doi: 10.21125/inted.2021.0743
Conference name: 15th International Technology, Education and Development Conference
Dates: 8-9 March, 2021
Location: Online Conference
Abstract:
In today's extraordinary times, it has become necessary to use other means in teaching than we have used so far. Previously, the rule was to teach in contact - in direct contact with students. Due to the spread of the epidemic, it was decided at the national level on distance learning. As a result, it means that very important (in terms of subjects) lectures and exercises began to take place day by day - online.

There are currently a large number of resources that can provide online learning. It is necessary to have a software environment that allows you to run a large number of applications and, in addition, there is no time limit. Another important feature of such applications is the ability to directly edit and create mathematical text as easily as possible. Such a property is very suitable in moments when the lecturer wants to show some examples that follow the lectured material, or, conversely, constructs counterexamples of the given definitions or sentences.

In this article, we will deal with the use of several different programming environments. In the previous period, we started communicating remotely with students and therefore automatically stopped using some resources. The possibility of communicating lectures to students online so that the difference between contact and distance learning is as small as possible in this case arose as a significant problem. Therefore, it will primarily be streaming lectures and then teaching exercises or even lectures using many different applications. In this article, we focus on teaching using the Zoom device. In general, some universities use similar resources that are regional in type - UK - in this case it is a great combination of streaming teaching while maintaining a uniform appearance and access to course information throughout the university, or use generally available or MOOC-type resources.

In this article we will analyse the advantages and disadvantages of individual programs used in teaching mathematics at university and compare them with each other.

Lecture streaming is widely used. The first major deployment of this method can be found in the MOOC environment. Here, whole cycles of lectures and exercises from many scientific disciplines, not only in mathematics, are performed. Therefore, throughout the article, we will focus on the means that allow the simplest possible way of working with mathematical text and at the same time creates great comfort for students and lecturers.
Keywords:
Distance learning, new challenges for education, different types of learning, higher education of mathematics now.