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this os called usability in our discipline (HCI). researcehrs in OU developed the pedagogical usability concept. actually it was Laurillard who intoduced the idea first, as far as I know. so the number functions as parts do not define the usbility of a system. usability means wasy of use i.e the need of the least physical and cognitive effort to use a system in order to enable learnability. from a HCI point of view. the difference between us as Interaction Designers and Learning Technologists is that we actually co-ordinate the usability process in order to have a system that works for you and only for you, by involving all stake holders in the early stages of design. niki --- Sarah Currier <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi Roger, > > >Surely, Educationally, its not what you've got, its > how you use it that > >counts? > > Of course- I don't think anyone would argue with > that. Educationally > speaking however, the quality of the tool and how it > is implemented are both > still important. What's the use of a tool that's so > badly designed (whether > the tool be a VLE or a vocabulary or a whiteboard) > that no teacher can use > it to do what they need to do? Achieving that takes > forethought, planning, > evaluation, etc.- involving the teachers and > learners of course. That's all > we're saying (on any side of the open source > debate). > > S. > > -- > ******************************************* > Ms. Sarah Currier > Project Manager, Community Dimensions of LO > Repositories (CD-LOR) > Senior Research Fellow, JISC/CETIS Pedagogical > Vocabularies Project > > Centre for Academic Practice and Learning > Enhancement > University of Strathclyde > Graham Hills Building, 50 George Street > Glasgow G1 1QE, Scotland, United Kingdom > Tel.: +44 (0)141 548 4573 Fax: +44 (0)141 553 2053 > E-mail: [log in to unmask] Mob.: +44 > (0)7980 855 801 > ******************************************* > > ***************** List information: > ***************** > Remember - replies go by default to the entire list. > Access the list via the web on > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/vle.html > To unsubscribe, email [log in to unmask] with > the message: leave vle > ***************** List information: ***************** Remember - replies go by default to the entire list. Access the list via the web on http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/vle.html To unsubscribe, email [log in to unmask] with the message: leave vle