Analysis of Spanish commercial digital educational platforms for Primary Education
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https://doi.org/10.17398/1695-288X.16.2.49Keywords:
Materiales educativos digitales, Tecnología Educativa, Plataformas Digitales, Educación Primaria, Digital Educational Materials, Educational Technology, Digital Platforms, Primary EducationAbstract
As a consequence of the technological advance and the massive arrival of ICT in the classroom, today we are experiencing a process of transition in schools that affects the teaching media and materials used in the teaching and learning processes. The pedagogical use in classrooms of digital content or online teaching materials is already a tangible reality that evidences a process of gradual change from traditional textbooks to new digital resources for learning. This article analyzes the pedagogical, socio-communicational and technological characteristics of a sample of commercial platforms of digital educational contents currently existing in Spain destined for Primary Education and in two autonomous communities: Galicia and Valencia. The results presented are part of the research project «The school of digital society: Analysis and proposals for the production and use of educational digital content» (EDU2015-64593-R) carried out by several competitive research groups of various universities, coordinated by the 'Laboratory of Research and New Technologies' (EDULLAB) of the University of La Laguna. To this end, an ad hoc instrument was developed and validated and administered to 13 commercial platforms. The results suggest that there is a wide range of online offer of teaching materials with a variety of formats, although the study has found that most reproduce the format of the traditional book, enriched with online resources..
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