Learning support of the basic concepts of mathematical logic by using e-learning materials in the teaching of expert systems

Abstract

Over the past decades, the importance of e-learning constantly increased. We believe that the most important property of the e-learning is: it is a user-centered system, which means that the student may proceed at its own place in the curriculum. It allows students to try things out, participate in courses, tests and simulations like never before, and get more out of learning than before. Teaching expert systems I realized that I can’t teach Prolog and Clips programming language because our students have no adequate knowledge of mathematical logic. In expert systems to describe it, even thousands statement-parameters should be used, therefore, the knowledge of basic concepts of mathematical logic is essential. In this article, an e-learning environment is presented, which enables agro-informatics students to learn or recall the basic concepts of mathematical logic necessary for the course Expert systems. According to the questionnaire the students like the e-learning materials, and would like to use it at other subjects, too. They don’t want to replace the standard lectures with e-learning materials; they would use them as additional material to lectures and practices.