Integrating educational theories into a feasible digital environment

• Main Authors: Zois Koukopoulos, Dimitrios Koukopoulos
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Emerald Publishing 2019-01-01
• Series: Applied Computing and Informatics
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221083271730159X

Nowadays there is a tremendous effort to enhance educational procedure with the incorporation of new technologies aiming at the better understanding of educational material from students. In this direction many theories have been developed, some of which have been implemented into digital systems. A challenge here is to develop a system that integrates more than one of such theories in a harmonic way for the benefit of student community. In this work we attempt to give an answer to this challenge proposing a novel system that integrates the main characteristics of three well-known educational theories: learning objects, collaborative learning and mobile learning in the context of cultural heritage teaching and learning. Evaluation results suggest that such an attempt is technically feasible, the integrated characteristics of the educational theories remain visible to educators of cultural heritage courses, while cultural heritage educators positively accept the potential incorporation of the platform in the educational procedure. Keywords: Cultural heritage teaching, Learning objects, Mobile learning, Collaborative learning, Content crowd-sourcing