Development of a platform for standardizing education of informatics teachers

Abstract

<p>Doktorska disertacija se bavi istraživanjima koja imaju za cilj da unaprede<br />obrazovanje nastavničkog kadra iz oblasti informatike. Predmet istraživanja disertacije je<br />razvoj platforme koja će olak&scaron;ati sinhronizaciju razvoja nastavničkog kurikuluma iz<br />informatičke oblasti sa aktuelnim srednjo&scaron;kolskim informatičkim standardima i<br />savremenim kurikulumima za nastavnike informatike. Prvi pravac istraživanja je<br />identifikovanje stanja u oblasti obrazovanja nastavnika informatike (modaliteti<br />obrazovanja nastavnika i kompetencije koje se tim modalitetima stiču). U disertaciji se<br />stanje identifikuje na osnovu analize savremene literature, aktuelnih standarda,<br />reprezentativnih kurikuluma i preliminarnog istraživanja nad populacijom sada&scaron;njih<br />nastavnika informatike na teritoriji Vojvodine. Drugi pravac istraživanja je<br />obezbeđivanje (tehničke) pretpostavke za objektivnije i efikasnije kreiranje,<br />upoređivanje i razmenu kurikuluma. Taj pravac se odnosi na razvoj ma&scaron;inski čitljive<br />ontologije kurikuluma bazirane na većpostojećim standardima u domenu obrazovanja i<br />softverske podr&scaron;ke za upoređivanje takvih reprezentacija kurikuluma bazirane na<br />tehnologijama Semantičkog Weba.<br />Ciljevi istraživanja u disertaciji su specifikacija ma&scaron;inski čitljivog modela informatičkog<br />kurikuluma za obrazovanje nastavnika informatike, ma&scaron;inski&nbsp; čitljivog modela<br />informatičkog kurikuluma za srednjo&scaron;kolski nivo obrazovanja i razvoj prototipa<br />softverske aplikacije za verifikaciju predloženih modela.</p>

<p>The doctoral thesis deals with researches that aim to improve the education of&nbsp;teaching staff in the field of informatics. The subject of the dissertation research is to&nbsp;develop a platform that will facilitate the synchronization of the development of teaching&nbsp; curricula in the informatics field with the current secondary informatics standards and modern curricula for informatics teachers of informatics. The first research direction is to identify the state in the informatics teacher education (modalities of teacher education and competences acquired through these modalities). In the dissertation, the state is identified from the review of literature, currentstandards, representative curricula and a preliminary research on population of current informatics teachers in Vojvodina. Another research direction is to provide (technical) prerequisites for more objective and more efficient creation, comparison and exchange of curricula. That direction is related to the development of a machine-readable ontological representation of a curriculum based on existing standards in the field of education and to developing software support for comparing such representations of curricula based on the Semantic Web technologies.<br />The goals of the research in the dissertation are to specify a machine readable model of the informatics teacher education curriculum, a machine-readable model of the informatics curriculum for secondary level education and the development of a software application prototype in order to verify the proposed models.</p>