Using IT to enhance the educational achievement of students
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51599/is.2016.02.01.09Keywords:
IT, educational achievement, QTI, SCORM standardsAbstract
This article presents the use of information technology (IT) in the education of students in Software Engineering and in English at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics at Plovdiv University. The teaching process incorporates traditional methods with applications based on the E-learning standards QTI and SCORM. The use of IT has been applied to the education of full-time and part-time Bachelor degree students from the 1st to the 4th year of studies. Based on the statistics from the teaching some conclusions have been drawn regarding the students’ performance and possible ways of enhancing their educational achievement.
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