National Science Foundation Awards Knowledge And Distributed Intelligence Grants
...stments in hardware and software, and colleges and universities are increasingly turning to distance-education technology to reach a broader customer base, it is critical to maximize the effectiveness of technology for learning. This project will improve understanding of how collaborative learning is facilitated......new media have developed. Mathematicians at the universities of Heidelberg and Mannheim will embark on a study of arithmetic, i.e. the theory of the types of numbers and their computational laws. They will use a wide range of mathematical methods to discover the relations between arithmetic geometry, the theor...