Towards an effective evaluation framework for IMS LD-based didactic materials: criteria and measures

  • Authors:

  • Carmen L. Padrón;Paloma Díaz;Ignacio Aedo

  • Affiliations:

  • DEI Laboratory Computer Science Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés, Madrid, Spain;DEI Laboratory Computer Science Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés, Madrid, Spain;DEI Laboratory Computer Science Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés, Madrid, Spain

  • Venue:
  • HCI'07 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Human-computer interaction: applications and services
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Evaluation is one of the most important activities in the didactic materials development process since it allows developers to check if the obtained material satisfies all requirements and it also provides developers with reliable information about material's utility, validating if the obtained material can be effective support in the achievement of the educational goals which it intends to support. Evaluation results provide valuable information for the material redesign in such cases when the requirements or educational goals are not satisfied. Nevertheless its importance, the evaluation has been often neglected in most of the approaches related to the development of didactic materials, which are more focused on issues such as interoperability or reusability. In this paper we present the MD2 evaluation framework based on a general evaluation procedure that include a set of criteria and measures for the two more important evaluation objectives of IMS LD-based didactic material: its usability and pedagogical usefulness.