Educational informatics is a sub-field of informatics that focuses on computer applications, systems, and networks that support education research and delivery. Some applications of educational informatics include massive open online courses (MOOCs) through platforms like Coursera and edX, Google Classroom, and educational smartphone apps. The advantages of educational informatics are shared data, centralized control, improved data integrity and security, and flexible design, while the disadvantages include complex design, reliance on external databases, high costs, and potential program failures.

1. Educational Informatics
By Midhat Idress
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2. Outlines:
• What is informatics?
• Educational informatics
• Applications
• Advantages
• Disadvantages

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

4. 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.

5. APPLICATIONS
• MOOC
• E.g. udacity, coursera, edx,
mitopencourseware etc.
• Google Classroom
• Smartphone Apps
• E.g. phrasal verb machine made by
Cambridge university press etc.

6. Advantages:
• shared data;
• centralized control;
• disadvantages of redundancy control;
• improved data integrity;
• improved data security, and database
systems; and,
• flexible conceptual design.

7. 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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