2nd Workshop on Information and Communication Technology in Higher Education: Learning Mathematics (

The new information and communication technologies feature more and more in the educational process. The Internet supports a powerful source of resources to which we can look for all kinds of information, documents, news about events, software, etc., offering important opportunities for the development of diversified activities in the classroom. Furthermore, it allows a space to publish our own productions, which are then available to a wide audience enabling sharing, joint reflection and consequent development of knowledge. Thus, more than a tool to access information and a means of disseminating educational products, the Internet offers a set of features that allows communication and collaborative work between people involved in very diverse activities, in real or deferred time. The participants in these groups, active elements in the use of various technological tools, and the dynamics that occur nowadays due to ICT, form themselves into networks essential to the development of virtual communities. These communities support learning as they promote interaction, collaboration and building of common goals. In recent years, several technologies and virtual communities have emerged in the field of mathematics education, with those that have developed in higher education, especially in engineering degrees, being of particular interest. In this Workshop we seek to share experiences and examples of good practices which reflect on the role of ICT and the various technological tools in the promotion and development of multiple learning mediated by ICT. It is also the intention to reflect and discuss what learning impact the activity of these virtual communities has. Consequently, it is important to describe and understand the relationships between the practice of teaching using interactive environments using ICT, learning developed by students and concept changes associated with teachers’ professional performance.