STUDENT-TEACHER COMMUNICATION DIRECTED TO COMPUTER-BASED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS

The main objective of this paper is to provide an optimal way for stud ents to control a computer-based teacher and interact with it. From pr evious experience, we took a special interest in improving the navigat ion through tutorial systems, and also in the evaluation techniques, d esigning and developing a new tutorial based on an open architecture. After implementing the tutorial prototype, it was evaluated by a selec ted group of users in a controlled laboratory situation in order to ga ther data about the characteristics and usability of this prototype. I n general, users had a good overall opinion of the evaluated tutorial. The key idea behind our experience is the introduction of tutorials i n all practical classes as a complement to the instructor in the near future. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.