A student centered methodology for the development of a physics video based laboratory

The design and development of good quality software is not, in itself, an e asy task. In the context of Educational Software development, another major problem is introduced: the user's goal is to learn. Unfortunately, learnin g is not a task that might be modeled and represented on a computer system. This paper intends to provide some answers to this problem: a Student Cent ered Methodology for the Development of Educational Software is presented. The methodology makes explicit how the different design choices were made, in order to obtain a final product that not only takes advantage of today's interaction technologies, but also makes an effective use of them. (C) 200 1 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.