Designing for Differences: Cultural Issues in the Design of WWW-based Course-support Sites.

Y

15

Computer Assisted Instruction; Computer System Design; Computer Uses in Education; Courseware; Culture; Foreign Countries; Guidelines; Higher Education; Multicultural Education; World Wide Web

0007-1013

Examines factors affecting the cultural appropriateness of Web-based course-support sites. Identifies a strategy for accommodating different values of these factors in Web-based course-support systems, based on a set of 10 design guidelines. Describes and evaluates the TeleTOP Method from the University of Twente (The Netherlands) to illustrate the design guidelines. (AEF)

2000

EJ591569