e-COMODE seamlessly weaves educational content with engaging IT tools.
An EU-funded project is harnessing the true power of modern computers to help students understand some of life’s more complex processes. Experts are moving beyond some of the basic computer tools, such as word processing and web browsing applications, and putting a computer’s performance to the test by running much more complex modelling programmes for classroom use. The EU-supported e-COMODE project has developed programmes to help students use computers to reach their full potential.
EU-supported e-COMODE is funded through the Information Society Technologies (IST) framework. It has developed interactive, digital eLearning environments which allow students to build models simulating some of nature’s more complex processes. The software is designed to encourage collaborative problem solving and online communication between students and their peers and teachers.
The recently developed system was tested in a live classroom environment with favourable results.
“The students and teachers where we’ve piloted the system are very enthusiastic, and once the pilot ended they wanted to know how they could continue to use the system,” says e-COMODE project coordinator Esther Casado.
The e-COMODE eLearning Environment is the product of a joint effort by a number of project partners coming together to design creative interactive tools coupled with stimulating content. The programmes are aimed at subjects that can be particularly tricky for students between the ages of 10 and 17 to grasp. They cover such subjects as medieval history and the relationships between the social strata at the time, and economics and the relationship between different mobile phone price plans, particularly useful for today’s wired generations. (leer más…)
Fuente: [european commission]
tags: e-learning
, aprendizaje, web2.0, e-COMODE, web 2.0
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