Between Geometry and Technical Drawing - Didactic Interactive and Animated Drawing Teaching Tools of the DIAD-TOOLS Project

Creating open online resources containing didactic materials verified in terms of substantive correctness, which support independent learning, becomes a huge need and a challenge that contemporary scientists, teachers, and educators try to meet. The need to create this type of material became particularly evident in the extreme situation in which educational systems found themselves in almost all countries of the world, in the era of the global COVID-19 pandemic, in 2020. The article presents the open Internet platform “DIAD-tools” created as part of the project No 2017-1-LT01-KA2020-035177 “Development of interactive and animated teaching tools - DIAD-tools”, which has been developed from October 1, 2017, to June 30, 2020, in the framework of the Erasmus + project, Action 2, Strategic Partnership. The platform, which is dedicated to pupils of technical high schools and students of technical universities, contains interactive and animated teaching materials supporting the study of technical drawing. The subject matter of the developed materials includes the geometric basis of the methods of projecting of spatial objects on the drawing plane which are used in technical drawing as well as issues from technical drawing, technical drawing - mechanical and architectural - construction drawing. Materials posted on the platform have been prepared in five national languages of the project partners (Estonian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Polish, Slovak) and in English.