Designing a Site to Embed and to Interact with Wolfram Alpha Widgets in Math and Sciences Courses

Abstract

This paper reports design and implementation outcomes at middle development advance of an educative program based on use and construction of widgets on Wolfram Alpha platform at higher education level for engineering and sciences areas. Widgets were created around of Physics and Mathematics curricula under Project Oriented Learning and Blended Learning methodologies. Widgets constructed by teachers are first used by students to appropriate basic concepts of each specific course on a mobile learning basis and after, students construct their own widgets applying that concepts but involving different applied situations in it and related courses, working with curriculum integration. Two phases of this activity help to develop basic and high level thinking. Description of design combining Wolfram Alpha widget developer, Weebly and Jotform tools to set up the widgets, institutional current advances on teachers’ training, courses involved and current outcomes of project are presented.