Predicting quality in educational software: Evaluating for learning, usability and the synergy between them

作者: David Squires , Jenny Preece

DOI: 10.1016/S0953-5438(98)00063-0

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摘要: Abstract Teachers need to be able evaluate predictively educational software so that they can make decisions about what purchase and how use in classrooms. The conventional approach predictive evaluation is a checklist. We argue checklists are seriously flawed principle because do not encompass consideration of learning issues. More particularly fail adopt socio-constructivist view learning. propose an adapts the idea usability heuristics by taking account perspective. This leads set `learning with software' heuristics. A notable feature these attend integration

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