e-Learning and Classroom Learning Activities

Systems for e-learning or blended learning support of teaching have become an integral part of teaching process from primary schools to universities. There is an enormous number of various LMS systems and educational programmes. Most available systems offer teaching and learning materials and provide feedback to the teacher - information on results achieved by their students. The paper introduces the Techambition system and its potential and opportunities it provides. The system was designed to support mathematics education on upper secondary schools and has been developed by a British company of the same name. This system is used in mathematics education on dozens of upper secondary schools in the Czech Republic. The number of students who work with it exceeds 10,000. Last year Faculty of Education, Charlese University signed a contract with the company Techambition. Academic staff of Faculty of Education are involved in development of educational content. Unlike other product, the Techambition system offers a brand new function - planning teaching activities. A system of artificial intelligence evaluates students' work and prepares a list of activities for them that the teacher should use in the next lesson. The plan includes both incentives for frontal teaching and proposals for collaborative learning. The system prepares for the teacher not only a set of tasks but also divides the students into groups. When dividing the students into groups, the system uses their characteristics (learning styles, knowledge of the topic, solving procedures used) with the aim of making the group work as effective as possible. Some activities are conducted on-line on computers and having evaluated the results new activities are proposed. The goal of the paper is to introduce the Techambition system as such, the method of designing individual activities as well as pupils' and teachers' experience with using the system. Results show that the use of Al in classroom management and lesson planning has a significant potential and deserves attention of further research.