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Issues in Component Computing: A Synthetic Review
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diSessa, Andrea A.; Azevedo, Flavio S.; Parnafes, Orit – Interactive Learning Environments, 2004
This paper provides a review of the rhetoric behind the component movement in educational software, and a critical analysis and synthesis of issues underlying the movement. We draw on case studies of several significant recent component projects in order to assess claims and to uncover and examine issues that are less often considered. While our…
Descriptors: Courseware, Computer Software, Educational Technology, Computer Uses in Education
A "Black-and-White Box" Approach to User Empowerment with Component Computing
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Kynigos, C. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2004
The paper discusses three aspects central to the 10 year-old process of design, development and use of E-slate, a construction kit for educational software. These are: (1) the design of computational media for user empowerment, (2) the socially-grounded approach to the building of user communities and (3) the issue of long-term sustainability as…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Computer Software, Empowerment