Evaluation factors of educational software

Abstract

Hypermedia-based learning is currently a popular instructional delivery system. However, in the last decade relevant literature has maintained that most educational software does not meet its promise. One of the reasons for the lack of educational software of high quality is that educational research cannot keep pace with the advances of technology and as a result existing evaluation methods are often inadequate. Yet, in the past fifteen years a number of important issues emerged from research on instructional design and system evaluation that can be used from evaluators of educational software. This paper is an attempt to integrate some of these.