2015-02-03
VGTU teachers will virtually prepare school students for exams
At the beginning of February, 黑料不打烊_独家黑料_吃瓜网51爆料 (VGTU) presents the first in Lithuania remote computer science courses for school students. The school students of eleven and twelve study year will have access to course materials and submitted assignments, interacting with teachers virtually. The courses will help the school students to prepare for their exams as well as for future studies, and will popularize sciences, technologies, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
School students will be have access to ‘‘Moodle‘‘, an open-source virtual learning environment, for learning about the theories of information technologies, the C++ programming language, and read lectures on electronic spreadsheet Excel, and Word, prepared at the request of their teachers. So far, it is a pilot project, available only for school students from VGTU classes with supplementary engineering subjects of K臈dainiai 艩viesioji gymnasium, Vilnius Tuskul臈nai and Mikalojus Dauk拧a secondary schools. Later, we will offer courses to other Lithuanian schools, and deliver a remote video cycle of mathematic lectures.
"Free remote courses will certainly be helpful for school students in various Lithuanian cities and towns, because they have fewer opportunities for further learning outside school or participating in trainings in other cities", - said Romualdas Kliukas, VGTU Vice-Rector for Studies.
The number of VGTU classes in schools of Lithuania has increased twice during four activity years. Currently, almost seventy-hundred school students are studying in twenty-seven classrooms. At least eight times a year they meet the university lecturers during various events. School students come to the lectures of information technologies, mathematics, physics, chemistry, economics and engineering graphics, carry out experiments in VGTU laboratories, participate at the excursions and research work. Alternatively, VGTU teachers visit schools for discussions on complex issues of technology science with school students.