CREATING SMART EDUCATIONAL CONTENTS FOR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING LECTURES IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS, AND SOLUTION PROPOSALS

Year 2016, Volume: 12 Issue: 2, 48 - 66, 14.11.2016

Cengiz Erdönmez

Abstract

The use of intelligent technologies in education increases every day.
There are a lot of new technologies implemented lately. Intelligent White
Boards (IWBs) are the most popular devices among them and preferred to use in
education nowadays. But the use of these technologies requires compatible and
supportable smart educational contents (SECs). It does not seem possible at
this stage to find such SECs ready to use for university lectures. Undoubtedly
one of the reason behind this issue is that contents of some lectures or their
syllabuses show huge differences between universities, even from lecturer to
lecturer. In addition, some of the universities could open some courses only
for their specific needs. In this paper, our aim is to figure out the necessary
characteristics of SECs and the lecturers who need SECs in their lessons,
should take care of while preparing their own SECs.

Keywords

Interactive White Boards, Smart Educational Contents, intelligent lectures, technological teaching tools

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