Supporting flexible learning paths with interactive learning resources in mathematics: lessons learned

ABSTRACT

The COVID-19 pandemic caused some serious setbacks in primary and secondary education wordlwide. In 2021, the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research (MoER) contracted a group of researchers and expert teachers to design and validate of a set of innovative digital learning resources that support personalized learning paths to meet the needs of a diverse learners trying to work on their knowledge gaps caused by pandemic. This paper presents the results of designing a set of innovative open educational resources for 9th grade mathematics and piloting these in nine pilot schools. Based on the analysis of the results, we identified the main technological and pedagogical challenges in supporting flexible learning paths with interactive digital learning resources in post-COVID mathematics education.

KEYWORDS:

• Flexible learning path
• personalized learning
• interactive learning resources
• learning analytics
• school mathematics

Acknowledgments

This study was funded by a R&D grant no. 2134 by the Ministry of Education & Research, Republic of Estonia.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

1. https://e-koolikott.ee/.

2. https://sites.google.com/view/mat-digitund/.

3. https://h5p.org/content-types-and-applications.