Continuing education

The Matrix Algebra course was lectured in the spring of 1995 in the Pori Unit of TUT with the possibility to use the course over a network. Students were participating in continuing education for engineers. Most of the students had been working as engineers in companies and were very motivated in learning and improving their professional skills.

In the laboratory demonstrations (2 hrs per week) the Matrix Algebra WWW version was used. It was also possible to use the material from home computers with a modem. Only a few students reported that they have a modem that is fast enough to be used with WWW but none actually used the material from their homes.

Certain topics were not lectured at all in the ordinary lectures but were left to be studied with hypermedia material (such as vector norm). The students were asked to read the chapter on vector norms from WWW and after that do hinted exercises on the topic. In general, this was found to be a good way to study the subject. However, the network caused problems when 15 students tried to access the same material almost simultaneously.

Gifted mathematics students

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