Eğitsel Web Arayüz Tasarımında Metaforlar: EMMA Adımları

— Hypermedia forms the basis of the e-learning with the active, non-linear and flexible structure. It provides a wide flexibility of movement for the learners. This allows access to a large number of educational multimedia materials. However, this learner control flexibility provided by hypermedia and abundance of information also have led to the emergence of disorientation, cognitive overload, divided attention and waste of time problems which negatively affect learner navigation performance. To cope with these problems it is expected to benefit from the metaphors as natural models in educational hypermedia. Because the metaphors may make the environment understandable and memorable to the user advantage of the concrete object, familiar facts, habits and tasks. The results from metaphorical interface design studies conducted over a 4 year period , provided the basis for this study. Based on the results of research a metaphorical interface design framework named EMMI (educational content analysis, metaphors, metaphorical interface components, Interface Design) has been developed. In this study, the pedagogical and practical implications are presented with the structure and operation of the framework