In a tertiary educational environment where emphasis is placed on the development of flexible learning using technology, there is a need to assist academics to move from the traditional lecture/tutorial approach (i.e. a didactic, linear, information presentation form) to a flexible learning milieu (a multidimensional, interactive, non-linear approach). Many academics lack appropriate knowledge ...

Educational Software Design is a postgraduate course which deals with the design, implementation and evaluation of Educational Systems. A main focus of the course is the human-centred design methods for the development of Educational Software. Based on this approach at the final assignment some students were involved in the formative evaluation process of the AES “MyProject”, as a representativ...

Due to the expansion of the internet and digital technologies in several areas of today's society, an increase in the application of digital resources in Education has been verified. However, most of these digital educational materials (DEM) are developed from the simple digitalization of analogic educational materials, usually occurring an unbalance among technical, graphic and pedagogic facto...

Curriculum integration is one of the main factors in the teachers’ decision-making process when deciding to use games in formal educational contexts. Based on this observation, we aim to introduce pre-service teachers to Game Based Learning (GBL) and Serious Games (SG) integration in the primary education curriculum. The teaching experience aims to facilitate different approaches to GBL and SG ...