Today, I have been to my first lecture of the course IN4145: Educational Software. Time went quick and I think I can use quite a good deal of the information presented in this course. The course is basically covering the following points:
- Educational Principles
- Design of educational software such as electronic instruction manuals, serious gaming, VR training, drills, and tutor agents and tutorials
- Educational software for specific learners such as children, elderly, mentally or physically challenged individuals
- Evaluation of education software
Which, in the end, will be evaluated by an oral exam, some presentations, and some course work.
To pass the course work, each group has to design and implement a small but executable and usable piece of educational software. First the subject matter, the learning objectives and the user group has to be chosen. Teams are free to choose their subject, and create an outline which has to be presented in class. The next decision is to choose a didactical strategy, an instructional design and a toolset for the implementation. Although several development environment exist, the objective of this module is not learning to use these tools, but to designing and implementing the educational software.
The coming week I will spend some of my time on coming with a nice concept for a piece of educational software. If you have any ideas feel free to comment here, or tweet or email me.
