Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  From involvement to engagement to improved learning (04 Jul 2005) It is generally agreed that, in order to create effective and relevant educational technologies, developers need to involve those who are intended to use these resources - namely teachers and children. This is widely accepted by most developers, and today learner involvement in design is increasingly seen as a common sense approach to avoiding the pitfalls of designing resources that learners and teachers can neither stand nor understand. But, in order for the outcome to be viable from both an educational and a commercial perspective, developers need to do more than involve users simply to inform the interface design or to map the product onto the curriculum. They need to move beyond this if they are to develop tools that not only look good and engage children but, critically, also improve learning. Article URL: http://www.nestafuturelab.org/viewpoint/vision/vision_01_03.htm Read 134 more articles from NESTA Futurelab sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Less is More as Microsoft ponders Life beyond the PC     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy