Evaluation of Electronic Learning Tools and Educational Software

Slovenská verzia 

The elaboration of the concept for the comprehensive evaluation of the quality of educational software and electronic learning materials was based on five key requirements:

  • Educational software (complex educational environment, applet, software module or a complement) should be stable and provide the users with a high-level technical, technological and user comfort.
  • Presented digital content should provide a thorough, age-appropriate, methodologically reasonable, high-quality, and detailed view on the given topic, considering the pedagogical and psychological aspects of learning, respecting the curricula and using the latest information processing technologies.  
  • The use of educational software should be simple and intuitive. User graphic interface should be comprehensible and the selected software operation tools should be clear, understandable and age-appropriate.  
  • Digital content should be open, offer various interactive educational activities supporting the learning, recognition and exploration, provide the feedback, and in the widest possible extent use visualization and multimedia.
  • Educational software (complex educational environment, applet, software module or a complement) must be supplemented with various supporting didactic materials, work sheets,  handbooks on how to work with its digital content properly (in an appropriate and suitable manner) and use it reasonably in the education process.  
  1. The area of technical and technological attributes,
  2. Content, operation, information structuring and processing,
  3. Information processing in terms of learning, recognition and education needs,
  4. Psychological and pedagogical aspects.