Web-based educational ecosystem for automatization of teaching process and assessment of students

ABSTRACT

The complexity of the teaching process at universities creates many challenges. It becomes much harder for teachers to observe, control and adjust the learning process. Teaching process can be enhanced with use of different educational systems that not only help students construct their knowledge, but also make this process the most effective and efficient. One of the processes that could be automated and supported is the assessment of students' assignments. Three e-learning systems are currently used at different universities for teaching software design basics. The goal of this paper is to propose new integrated tool that can be used in university courses to support different stages of learning and evaluation of students' assignments. Such integrated system will be used to simplify the correction process of software design assignments.

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Index Terms

• Applied computing

  • Education

    • E-learning

• Software and its engineering

  • Software creation and management

    • Designing software

      • Software design engineering