Design and implementation of an e-class about continuous dynamical systems

In 2008, a small team of university and secondary school teachers in the Netherlands jointly developed an e-class for students in their final pre-university year (age: 17-18 yrs) about continuous dynamical systems. The e-class is an innovative way of teaching and learning mathematics and science by way of web-supported instruction in a blended learning approach. The e-learning ingredients are: an on-line instructional text, Java applets for students' explorative work, Java exercise applets, video clips of worked-out examples, and descriptions plus (computer) worksheets of real experiments. We present the design of the e-class plus some of the ICT ingredients of the e-class and their potential for teaching and learning dynamical systems in terms of principled design approaches to multimedia learning and pedagogical arrangements.