Torrey Byles, Contributing Editor Educational software publishing promises to be a billion dollar industry in less than three years, but today the market is saturated with too many suppliers, and the negligible profit margins are restricting investment in further development, according to speakers at Edcompcon in San Jose, November 8-10. Educational packages "are multiplying like mice in a barn...

The article describes the basic skills and phases necessary for the successful engineering and development of educational software. In the course of the analysis, the basics of software development are laid, including the objectives of the audience and the program, hardware and software limitations are determined, content resources are defined and auxiliary management tools are considered. Effe...

English Abstract The paper is a first presentation of the design and development of educational software implemented by the Department of Technology Education and Digital Systems of the University of Piraeus. Its aim was the development of educational software for teaching Greek as a second or foreign language to people coming from English-speaking countries. In this paper, the objectives and t...

The development of good quality educational software is expensive, time-consuming and faces some underlying issues. In order to deal with such issues, many attempts were made, mainly on code reuse. Following a similar approach, the development of an application framework for implementing a family of interactivityintense educational software called Interactive Learning Modules – iLM is presented...

User interface (UI) is point of interaction between user and computer software. The success and failure of a software application depends on User Interface Design (UID). Possibility of using a software, easily using and learning are issues influenced by UID. The UI is significant in designing of educational software (e-Learning). Principles and concepts of learning should be considered in addit...

SEARCH IN QUALITATIVE PHYSics has many motivations, ranging from improving ourunderstanding ofhuman cog nition to making new kinds of software systems for various applications . In particular, creating new kinds of educational software has been a motivation for qualitative physics since its inception. 1,2 This goal is now beginning to be realized, thanks to advances in qualitative physics and c...

Adaptive, inclusive software design is an area of research that aims to devise technologies and techniques to give equal access to educational materials and to assist all learners, regardless of impairment, in reaching there full educational potential within inclusive educational environments. An inclusive software design approach seeks to address the user interface and interaction needs of all...

The purpose of this research is to discover factors that significantly affect the future teachers’ decisions regarding the use of educational software in teaching. The study involved nine factors and obtained 112 valid questionnaires. The results revealed that the decision of future teachers on the use of educational software in teaching was affected by six factors: the required effort, persona...