Computer Science and Educational Software Design: A Resource for Multidisciplinary Work in Technology Enhanced Learning by Pierre Tchounikine (Hardcover, 2011)
Developing educational software requires thinking, problematizing, representing, modeling, implementing and analyzing pedagogical objectives and issues, as well as conceptual models and software architectures. Computer scientists face the difficulty of understanding the particular issues and phenomena to be taken into account in educational software projects and of avoiding a naive technocentered perspective. On the other hand, actors with backgrounds in human or social sciences face the difficulty of understanding software design and implementation issues, and how computer scientists engage in these tasks. Tchounikine argues that these difficulties cannot be solved by building a kind of general theory or general engineering methodology to be adopted by all actors for all projects: educational software projects may correspond to very different realities, and may be conducted within very different perspectives and with very different matters of concern. Thus the issue of understanding each others' perspectives and elaborating some common ground is to be considered in context, within the considered project or perspective. To this end, he provides the reader with a framework and means for actively taking into account the relationships between pedagogical settings and software, and for working together in a multidisciplinary way to develop educational software. His book is for actors engaged in research or development projects which require inventing, designing, adapting, implementing or analyzing educational software. The core audience is Master's and PhD students, researchers and engineers from computer science or human and social sciences (e.g., education, psychology, pedagogy, philosophy, communications or sociology) interested in the issues raised by educational software design and analysis and in the variety of perspectives that may be adopted.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg Gmbh & Co. Kg
ISBN-13
9783642200021
eBay Product ID (ePID)
107759876
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Educational Technology
Author
Pierre Tchounikine
Publication Name
Computer Science and Educational Software Design: A Resource for Multidisciplinary Work in Technology Enhanced Learning
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Education, Computer Science
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
180 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
235mm
Item Width
155mm
Item Weight
465g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Pierre Tchounikine
Country/Region of Manufacture
Germany
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