Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona


Thursday 30 March 2000
11:30h

Instructional Technology and Design:

Why are educational computer screens usually boring and uninstructive?

This conversation deals with some basic questions about the failure of instructional technology to reach its potential. There are many political, sociological, and economic reasons. But this talk is about failures in design. We explore the history of media and look at the way the "matériel" helps to determine the content of traditional media, and modern media as well.

Click here to download slide show (as of now, 4.4.00, self-extracting)
  1. Save to disk;
  2. Run .exe file
  3. Run pngsetup
  4. Copy all the .txt files to the chosen directory/folder
  5. Run ppview32
  6. Choose bcn.ppt
  7. On the Rodin slide, doubleclick on the image L'Eternal printemps
  8. Test links on other slides
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