Criteria for educational software
Am Sonntag 07 September 2008 schrieb Andreas Tille:
> I have no idea about the criteria which make a package fit for
> education but some review might be interesting (for instance there is
> a Debian packaged version of Avogadro which a hint was given to in
> this thread listed on Debian Science).
Dear Andreas,
you are hitting a good point here. Let's try to collect some criteria
and place them on a prominent web space...
Practically aspects:
Software that is already being used by teachers in educational context
might be called fit for school.
Usability:
In most cases (apart from computer science), software fit for school
will need an intuitive GUI (Qt, GTK), multilingual documentation,
abilitiy to save and continue your work.
Needed Knowledge:
Some scientific software is only usable for scientists with a knowledge
beyond what is taught in secondary schools.
Use Cases:
In educational context, I'd distinct different kinds of use cases.
Software fit for school should match at lease one of them. This list
coming into my mind is probably not complete:
A. Productive software - result orientated
Software to write a text, draw a sketch, create a mindmap
B. Software supporting self managed learning
Software that enables students to find out relations etc. themselves.
These could be simulations (KStep) or interactive quizes (KGepgraphy).
C. Software connected to a specific subject being part of a curriculum
e.g. object orientated modelling/UML (umbrello); Kalzium (chemistry)
D. Meta learning
...
to be ctd.
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