Objectives To identify the learning needs of patients with heart failure between outpatients follow-up visits from their perspective and to ascertain what they emphasize as being important in the design of an educational website for them. Methods We conducted a two-step qualitative study at Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark. Twenty patients with heart failure participated either in focus gr...

Creative teams can help software companies to grow and to obtain advantage. It is important for contemporary educational units to increase student team creativity in information system development and provide training for student teams to product creative results. A survey design was selected to collect data and test the proposed model. Thirty-six teams (204 students) enrolling in an informatio...

The Software Factory described in this paper is an organizational structure specialized in the production of educational materials based on software components according to educational specifications and externally-defined by the end-users requirements (Learners, Tutors, University, Instructional Designers, etc.). The Software Factory applies manufacturing techniques and principles of Domain En...

The advent of technologies has changed our very idea of what a course is (Bates & Poole, 2003). Instructors in Higher Education are now daily supported by instructional designers or educational technology experts that provide advice for integrating Web-based activities, videoconference sessions, high-quality digital media presentations, etc. in their teaching activities. The process of designin...

It is easy to feel overwhelmed with the tantalizing array of instructional technologies available. How do educators choose the ones to use? We are part of a distributed team of instructional designers, evaluation consultants, and new media specialists within the University of Alberta (Canada). Until recently, we worked together as instructional developers in Academic Technologies for Learning (...

This paper describes an educational framework offering one possible approach to linking sustainability and design. This framework, developed as part of the demi project, provides links to information new to designers thereby challenging the design status quo. For example, it incorporates the integration of different communities within designing often from outside traditional boundaries and an a...

Video game levels are configurations of a set of game parameters; the possible options represented by these game parameters constitute the total design space of a video game. By manipulating game parameters, level designers are able to craft and optimize player experiences. Our research involves the systematic exploration of the design space of an educational game in order to understand how dif...