Current Trends of Educational Software

Past

Present and future

Task Oriented

Free content

Linear

Explorable

Teacher driven

Student centred

Instructional

Open-ended

Individual base

Collaboration (ex. Cooperation in writing)

Age dependent

Promoting continuity (Age independent)

VDU centred

Multimedia

Text

Image

Vague and uneasy to understand

Intuitive

Griffin, J. et al (eds.), 1995, Computers in the Primary School, Cassel, London.1-6.