Title :
The AppComposer Web application for school teachers: A platform for translating and adapting educational web applications
Author :
Rodriguez-Gil, Luis ; Orduna, Pablo ; Bollen, Lars ; Govaerts, Sten ; Holzer, Adrian ; Gillet, Denis ; Lopez-de-Ipina, Diego ; Garcia-Zubia, Javier
Author_Institution :
DeustoTech - Deusto Inst. of Technol., Univ. of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain
Abstract :
Developing educational apps that cover a wide range of learning contexts and languages is a challenging task. In this paper, we introduce the AppComposer Web app to address this issue. The AppComposer aims at empowering teachers to easily translate and adapt existing apps that fit their educational contexts. Developers do not need to provide extensive translations and configurations of their apps and can simply follow certain guidelines to make their apps translatable and adaptable by the AppComposer. Since the AppComposer makes use of the standard internationalization specification used by OpenSocial, even external apps can be translated without contacting the original developer.
Keywords :
STEM; application program interfaces; courseware; educational institutions; language translation; user interfaces; AppComposer Web application; OpenSocial; educational Web application adaptation; educational Web application translation; external apps; learning contexts; school teachers; standard internationalization specification; Conferences; Context; Databases; Engineering education; Europe; Laboratories; Portals;
Conference_Titel :
Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2015 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Tallinn
DOI :
10.1109/EDUCON.2015.7096079
