A WEB TOOL FOR THE DESIGNING AND DEVELOPMENT OF DIGITAL INTERACTIVE EDUCATIONAL/TEACHING SCENARIOS AT THE SERVICE OF EDUCATION

This study covers the innovative platform “AESOP: Advanced Electronic Scenarios Operating Platform” that was developed to enable teachers and pupils to design, develop and evaluate interactive educational material.

Special emphasis is placed on the presentation of the features and the potential of this electronic system as an integrated learning teaching and research tool of electronic lessons that exploits modern web technologies without any software add-ons, using only a modern Web Browser at any desktop or mobile computing device.

The structure of the educational/teaching scenario is designed and extracted dynamically from the platform. There is extensive reference to the use and exploitation of a considerable number of free web-based tools for the design of an original or the reuse of an existing digital material, as well as, to the possibility of transforming a digital material into an interactive application.

In each scenario the creator/designer, by using knowledge, experience and imagination, is able to create a compound digital material in direct correspondence with one or more cognitive subjects, thematic areas and classifications. This is done by describing teaching goals and objectives, instructional phases and worksheets, and fully adjust them into the structure of a modern and pedagogically exploitable digital educational/teaching scenario that is consistent with the current applied Greek curricula of education.

The potential of the AESOP Platform has already been exploited by thousands of Greek teachers. Currently the platform hosts high quality teaching digital material, scientifically and pedagogically accredited by the responsible scientific authority for educational issues of the primary and secondary education in Greece (Greek Institute of Educational policy).

Any teacher in Greece, has the potential to choose among 39 cognitive subjects of the primary and secondary, general and vocational, education and to design digital interactive educational/teaching scenarios for all students, for diverse groups of students or even for individual students with special needs or inclinations.