Digital Educational Tools – Potential, Application, and Perspectives

Abstract

The paper examines the technologies for creating digital educational resources from the point of view of necessity, implementation, and techniques for their creation. Various digital educational tools and their capabilities according to their application are described: learning and learning management programmes, tools for creating online tests and surveys, tools for creating online quizzes and educational games, interactive worksheets, tools for video lessons, OneNote electronic notebook. A study was conducted on the opinion and attitude of teachers and students about the electronic resources used in different academic disciplines, both for teaching learning content and for control and self-control. The results of two surveys are presented – one aimed at students and the other at teachers. The opinions of 155 teachers and 180 students from four regions in Bulgaria are summarized. The two main aspects of an application – for teaching learning content and for control and self-control – have been analyzed.