A Touch-Based Mathematical Expression Editor

IRRODL Volume 14, Number 1

“…Several studies have identified the main benefits that e-learning can bring to organizations which use this methodology (Carnoy, 2004;Wang et al, 2006;Hodges, 2009). These can be divided into four categories: cost reduction, flexibility and adaptability, permanent updating, and personalized attention.…”

“…Moreover, the tool provides the students with the possibility of comparing the reference answers generated by the professor with their own answers in order to give detailed feedback and improve their learning process. The platform also includes a text editor that allows inserting formulas both in the statements and in the answers with the JavaScript plug-in MathML (Su et al, 2006).…”

“…The statement of each question is presented to the students together with their corresponding mark. The students must answer within a text editor, where they can insert formulas thanks to a JavaScript plugin called MathEdit (Su et al, 2006), as seen in Figure 3a. Once the answer has been written and the test is finished, the system provides a score to the student together with the obtained marks in each of the questions (see Figure 3b).…”