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.
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