Journal article
Evaluating courseware: A need for more context bound evaluations?
Australian Educational Computing, Vol.16(2), pp.18-26
2001
Abstract
This paper reviews what different commentators have written about the evaluation of educational courseware, especially the recent suggestion that more 'context-bound' evaluations are needed. We draw on our experience of such an evaluation and hypothesise on the reasons for the lack of such evaluations. Examples of context-bound evaluations include an evaluation of the Climate courseware, developed by the Education Department of Western Australia some years ago, to illustrate the approach. This is contrasted by a desktop evaluation of courseware of the same name Climate, developed in the UK with a similar kind of context-bound evaluation of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiago? Reviews of the courseware From Alice to Ocean, The Gold Adventure, of context-bound evaluations are provided for illustrative the value of context-bound evaluations.
Details
- Title
- Evaluating courseware: A need for more context bound evaluations?
- Authors/Creators
- P. Hosie (Author/Creator)R. Schibeci (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Australian Educational Computing, Vol.16(2), pp.18-26
- Publisher
- Australian Council for Computers in Education
- Identifiers
- 991005540031007891
- Copyright
- 2001 ACCE
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publisher URL
- http://acce.edu.au/journal/16/2/evaluating-courseware-need-more-context-bound-evaluations
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