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Would Boys and Girls Benefit from Gender-Specific Educational Software?
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Luik, Piret – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
Most boys and girls interact differently with educational software and have different preferences for the design of educational software. The question is whether the usage of educational software has the same consequences for both genders. This paper investigates the characteristics of drill-and-practice programmes or drills that are efficient for…
Descriptors: Females, Computer Software, Gender Differences, Drills (Practice)
Semiotics as a Basis for Educational Software Design.
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Oliveira, Osvaldo Luiz de; Baranauskas, Maria Cecilia Calani – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2000
Presents a group of semiotic principles for software design and uses them to show how they explain different educational possibilities. Discusses interface design and describes Theater in the Computer, a software environment for children, to illustrate semiotic-based principle of interface design. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Interfaces, Computer Software Development, Computer System Design
Designing for Differences: Cultural Issues in the Design of WWW-based Course-support Sites.
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Collis, Betty – British Journal of Educational Technology, 1999
Examines factors affecting the cultural appropriateness of Web-based course-support sites. Identifies a strategy for accommodating different values of these factors in Web-based course-support systems, based on a set of 10 design guidelines. Describes and evaluates the TeleTOP Method from the University of Twente (The Netherlands) to illustrate…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer System Design, Computer Uses in Education, Courseware