EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: APPLICATIONS AND TOOLS

EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: APPLICATIONS AND TOOLS

Second Semester
7.5 ECTS

Coordinator: 
Panagiota Kontou 

Teachers:
Panagiota Kontou, Eleni Vlachou, Tsironis Avgeris.

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Educational Software Development: Applications and Tools


Description.

Introduction to Educational Software, Categories of Educational Software
Internet applications, Social networking tools and learning communities (forum, chat, email, Google docs, Drive, Dropbox, etc.), Educational Portals
The asynchronous tele-education platforms. Tele-education systems. MOODLE, OPEN ECLASS3, Modern Education. Videoconferencing technologies – virtual classroom live (online). BigBlueButton /(part of the MOODLE platform)
Description of all available software by category and by class.
E-books – Encyclopedias, Platform of interactive books
Platforms for digital teaching scenarios, Hotpotatoes, Concept Map Construction Tools, Teaching Evaluation Tools.
Introduction to Programming with Scratch
Computational thinking, physical computing and STEM epistemology.
Educational robotics, Pedagogical approaches and applications of open software and open hardware
Creating educational games with Unity
Construction of multimedia fairy tales – stories. Animation Development

Bibliography:
Οι ΤΠΕ στις Επιστήμες της Αγωγής: Σχεδιασμός διδακτικών σεναρίων, Καλοβρέκτης Κωνσταντίνος, Κοντού Παναγιώτα, Ψυχάρης Σαράντος, Παρασκευοπούλου-Κόλλια, Ευφροσύνη-Άλκηστη, ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ Α. ΤΖΙΟΛΑ & ΥΙΟΙ Α.Ε.

The course is assessed through the completion of a project, which may be examined orally.