Please respond onlist.  I am very interested.

Aaron
--- Betsy Price <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi All:
>
> I am working on a team of evaluators for a web-based textbook.  It is
> an entire curriculum package of a greatly reduced textbook, wet labs,
> and a huge website with interactives.
>
> My question comes from my observations of students and teachers using
> the interactive pages on the website.  Students and teachers are
> reacting to the website activities like a visitor to an exhibit.  For
> example students will click until they can get something to move
> before reading about the activity. If nothing moves, they will assume
> it is “broken” and move on.  Another example is that the most
> successful text is designed similar to exhibit labeling.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas who may have written a paper or noticed
> anything similar?  Any suggestions?
>
> Betsy
>
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