Mathematics education process improvement through cooperation: experience of Latvia University of Agriculture
2013
Vintere, A., Latvia Univ. of Agriculture, Jelgava (Latvia)
It is known that mobility, lifelong learning, use of the new technological tools and flexible approach to knowledge acquisition requires to search for new methods and to promote the studies program coherence in the European education area. Therefore the development of local and international cooperation in mathematics is topical issue for the Latvia University of Agriculture. To improve the teaching quality by means of exchanging teachers’ experience, to learn about the problems and methods used to solve them in the neighbouring countries, during last three years two cooperation networks were developed: Cross-border network for adapting mathematical competences in the socio-economic development (Latvia University of Agriculture and Siauliai University) and Baltic network in agrometrics (Latvia University of Agriculture, Estonian University of Life Science and Aleksandras Stulginskis University). This article summarizes the past experience of the international cooperation in mathematics generalizing benefits, evaluates the progress achieved at Latvia University of Agriculture and impact on mathematics education development as well as outlines the future directions and possible forms of the cooperation.
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