Cognitive Effectiveness of Visual Instructional Design Languages

Kathrin Figl, Michael Derntl, Manuel Caeiro Rodriguez, Luca Botturi

Publikation: Wissenschaftliche FachzeitschriftOriginalbeitrag in FachzeitschriftBegutachtung

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Abstract

The introduction of learning technologies into education is making the design of courses and instructional materials an increasingly complex task. Instructional design languages are identified as conceptual tools for achieving more standardized and, at the same time, more creative design solutions, as well as enhancing communication and transparency in the design process. In this article we discuss differences in cognitive aspects of three visual instructional design languages (E²ML, PoEML, coUML), based on user evaluation. Cognitive aspects are of relevance for learning a design language, creating models with it, and understanding models created using it. The findings should enable language constructors to improve the usability of visual instructional design languages in the future. The paper concludes with directions with regard to how future research on visual instructional design languages could strengthen their value and enhance their actual use by educators and designers by synthesizing existing efforts into a unified modeling approach for VIDLs.
OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)359 - 373
FachzeitschriftJournal of Visual Languages and Computing
Jahrgang21
Ausgabenummer6
DOIs
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2010

Österreichische Systematik der Wissenschaftszweige (ÖFOS)

  • 501011 Kognitionspsychologie
  • 102024 Usability Research
  • 102013 Human-Computer Interaction
  • 102015 Informationssysteme
  • 502050 Wirtschaftsinformatik

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