Educational Informatics

By Midhat IdressRoll# 39

Outlines:

• What is informatics?• Educational informatics• Applications• Advantages• Disadvantages

Informatics

• Informatics is the study of the structure, behaviour, and interactions of natural and engineered computational systems.

Educational Informatics

• It is a sub-field of informatics.• The primary focus is on the computer

applications, systems and networks that support research in and delivering of education.

APPLICATIONS

• MOOC • E.g. udacity, coursera, edx,

mitopencourseware etc.• Google Classroom• Smartphone Apps• E.g. phrasal verb machine made by

Cambridge university press etc.

Advantages:

• shared data;• centralized control;• disadvantages of redundancy control;• improved data integrity;• improved data security, and database

systems; and,• flexible conceptual design. 

Disadvantages

• a complex conceptual design process;• the need for multiple external databases;• the need to hire database-related

employees;• high DBMS acquisition costs;• a more complex programmer environment;• potentially catastrophic program failures;

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