Describes a course developed at the University of Victoria (British Columbia) to provide training for educators that will facilitate communication with computer scientists as they work together on educational software development projects. Software engineering and instructional design principles are discussed, the course methodology is explained,…

This paper describes how the authors use a mixture of World Wide Web (WWW)-based functionalities and new didactics to teach educational technology students at the University of Twente (Netherlands) about the design of WWW-based learning environments. Topics discussed include: (1) the content of courses about the design of educational WWW…

Discusses issues related to the portability, or transferability, of educational software. Topics include motivations for portability, including economic and social; technology transfer experiences; technical, educational, social/cultural, and organizational factors; examples, including international projects; handling multiple languages; graphical…