Open AccessMaxima – An Open Alternative for Engineering Education
Author(s) -
Katarı́na Žáková
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
international journal of engineering pedadogy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 7
ISSN - 2192-4880
DOI - 10.3991/ijep.v1i1.1598
Subject(s) - maxima , computer science , the internet , software , process (computing) , open educational resources , open education , subject (documents) , software engineering , world wide web , multimedia , operating system , art , performance art , art history
The aim of the article is to present a new possible way of an interactive teaching. The effort is to substitute proprietary software that is commonly used in educational process by open technologies. Since the subject of this article is oriented to the engineering area we devoted our attention to open software and we chose Maxima. Moreover, this tool can be available not only locally on the desktop computer or the notebook but also online via Internet. In the paper we also introduce examples of the implementation.