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Testing e-learning platforms based on two perspectives:
technological and pedagogical
The popularity of online learning experiences offers great opportunities
and benefits. However, significant challenges exist where
the demand and interest in a product with higher quality are
imposed, and these must urgently be tackled. Providing quality
to e-learning platforms is critical for the organizations that develop
them. Taking this situation into account, Industrial Laboratory
Testing Software incorporated the evaluation of e-learning platforms
into its services. This evaluation is done through a strategy
that is structured in two perspectives: pedagogical and technological.
It takes advantage of the teachers of its specialists, where
the majority of these are informatics engineers. All evaluations
have been satisfactory. With an absence of this testing on multiple
platforms there could be both functional and methodological
problems.
The 21st century knowledgebased
society has declared the
need for new spaces for its
educational processes. The use
of the Internet in education is
something relatively recent.
One could say that it is still in
its initial phase. Many people
observing the advantages and
possibilities that the Internet
offers have taken the initiative
by creating their own classrooms
online, and they have often
made mistakes and needed
others to help reorganize the
process. Creating an educational
system for the web is not
a question of simply digitizing
educational texts or reading
electronic books. Initiatives of
this sort can waste all the advantages
and opportunities
that the Internet offers for education.
The development of an
educational environment online
entails some specific factors
that differentiate it from
an educational system based
on a personal PC. The development
of an online learning environment
also has some special
features that differentiate
it from a conventional educa-
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tional system.
Testing e-learning platforms.
Many of the hopes placed in the e-learning have not been confirmed
in educational practice. From our point of view the debate
has been centered too much on the technical components,
for example in the platforms, forgetting what critical pedagogic
variables need to be considered. In this article we consider some
of these factors: technological competence of professors and students,
institutional support, contents, social interaction, media,
methodologies. [1]
Due to the characteristics of these systems, a strategy was developed
for testing, keeping in mind not only the technological
perspective but also incorporating pedagogical aspects based on
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