Volume 38 Number 2 Winter 2005 Technology for Curriculum And Teacher Development: Software To Help Educators Learn While Designing Teacher GuidesSusan McKenney AbstractThis article describes research on the quality of a computer program designed to help secondary level science teachers in southern Africa create exemplary paper-based lesson materials. Results of this study show that the content, support, and interface of the program combine to form a tool that is considered by both users and experts to be valid and practical. Findings further indicate that it has the potential to help users create good quality materials while learning from the design process, but that this potential depends primarily on how the program is implemented.
ContributorSusan McKenney is an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum (part of the Faculty of Behavioral Sciences) at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Dr. McKenney’s current research and teaching focus on curriculum development, teacher professional development, and, in many cases, the supportive role of computers in those processes. Although much of her work is carried out in collaboration with organizations in developing countries, she is also active in consultancy and research endeavors in the United States and the Netherlands. ContactSusan McKenney Copyright © 2005, ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education). All rights reserved. | ||||
