Revisión sistemática de criterios de calidad para evaluar aplicaciones educativas web y móviles

Abstract

Technology has advanced a lot in recent decades; therefore, educational apps play a key role today. But also, they must meet certain conditions to be optimal for education, so they must follow certain quality criteria, but not only focus on the app itself, but also serve for teaching. For this reason, a systematic review of quality criteria for web and mobile educational apps using PRISMA is carried out. To search for these studies, we proceed with a quantitative review of articles that contain quality criteria, with the help of the PRISMA declaration guides. Quality criteria were found that were grouped into three categories: General, Web and Mobile. Web applications include Instructional Design and mobile applications include Accuracy, Availability, Communication, Learning, Load Time, Pedagogical, Portability and Support. The General category was added because there are results that only mentioned quality criteria for unspecified educational applications. With these criteria, the classification was made for both web and mobile educational applications. Although the studies reviewed detailed quality criteria specifically for educational applications, there are no standards defined at the time of classification and definition of these criteria, each one is at the discretion of each author. PRISMA proved to be a good guide for an agile search of articles. Multiplatform applications for people with disabilities were evaluated again, demonstrating that the MARS tool is useful for evaluating educational applications both web and mobile, and it can be further improved with new criteria.