Choosing and Using Educational Software
An investigation into the interactions between users of educational software i.e. the student, teacher and software designer is given in this book, providing theoretical frameworks for studying educational software.; The existing approach to selection of educational software is examined and shown to be seriously limited, focusing only on the attributes of software packages rather than on educational questions. The authors highlight current inadequacies of existing selection techniques and...
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An investigation into the interactions between users of educational software i.e. the student, teacher and software designer is given in this book, providing theoretical frameworks for studying educational software.; The existing approach to selection of educational software is examined and shown to be seriously limited, focusing only on the attributes of software packages rather than on educational questions. The authors highlight current inadequacies of existing selection techniques and refer to a variety of educational software drawn from practice in primary, secondary and further education.
About the AuthorsPreface1Educational Software12Selecting Educational Software93Checklists for Software Assessment204Examination of the Checklist Approach in Software Selection285Problems with the Checklist Approach for Software Selection436Frameworks for Studying Educational Software537A Perspectives Interactions Paradigm for Studying Educational Software658The Teacher and Student Perspectives Interaction729The Designer and Student Perspectives Interaction8710The Designer and Teacher Perspectives Interaction10011Choosing and Using Educational Software111Appendixes120Bibliography148Index157
