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Assessing and Selecting Digital Educational Resources

Lic. Mariana Porta

Objectives:

Provide a set of criteria to evaluate digital resources.

Walk one more step into teacher-empowerment to face the digital world.

Digital Resources

Applications: tools to be used with the content we decide

Contents we select from the web to integrate to our class

Software that has been developed for the specific purpose of teaching

2. Choices available?

4. Making a choice

5. Implmentation stage

3. Evaluating possible digital resources

1. What is the model? Course design

A process

Dimensions

Context of implementation

Technical dimension

Pedagogical dimension:

Specific pedagogical needs

Theory of learning and teaching behind

Teacher's role

Evaluation and scoring systems

4. Interactivity

5. Ideological dimension

6. Design

Context of implementation

What is the model implemented?

Why a digital resource, why a specific teaching software?

How will the teacher work?

Who is the course directed to?

A process that involves different know hows

You need an ACADEMIC decision here

You need a technical decision here

You need a budget here

Technical dimension

What kind of licence does it have?

How is it distributed and supported?

What kind of equipment does it require?

Is the programming good?

How much is it?

Institutions are generally the ones that have to evaluate this.Availability

Money

Logistics

Pedagogical dimension (1)

What is the theory of learning and teaching behind this software?

What are our pedagogical needs before selecting the resource?


The theory of learning behindThe role of the teacher

Teacher- student interaction

Student-student interaction

Degree of autonomy of the student

Evaluation and rubrics

Pedagogical support to the teacher, guides, suggestions, etc.


The theory of language behind

Text structure

Hipertexts and multimedia

Interactivity (1)

a) user-content

Interface and navigation

How is information accessed?

What are the menu options?

What are the possible paths through the material?

What is the digree of freedom allowed to the user?

Can it be customized by the user?

Interactivity (2)

b) student-studentIs there room for student-student interaction?

Is there room for collaborative work?

Interactivity (3)

student-teacherHow do student and teacher get in touch?

Is there a system to keep track of feedback?

Assessment and evaluation? Gradebook, reports, etc.

Design

Does it look good?

Screens: are they easy to read? Consider font, size, colors, graphics.

Sound quality: Is it good, natural?

Does it adapt to students?

Can it be customized?

How is the visual component integrated?

To reflect ...

Ideological dimension

The hidden curriculum

Cultural stereotypes about work, family, authority, gender, etc.

How the world is represented

What are the milestones at each of these stages?

Design a course

Survey the market

Go through evaluation process

Make a choice and elaborate a report on the software you have chosen. Point out drawbacks and highlights.

Develop a plan for implementation

Train your staff in the use of this software

Implement.

Evaluate results

We'll focus on software developed for teaching purposes

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Demo 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Umj1kan8M

1. Context of implementation

2. Technical dimension

3. Pedagogical dimension

4. Interactivity

5. Design

6. Ideological dimension

Conclusions

In my humble opinion ...Beware of the market!

We need to make informed decisions about software for teaching.

We have to know what we need.

We should learn, so some day we can develop our own digital resources.

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