Guenter Hilmer - Phd Thesis - Glamorgan Dspace - University of ...

6.1 Analysis of the pre-test interview 6 INTERVIEW EVALUATION
remaining 66% of the test candidates were highly interested in this specific topic,
but did not have the time to acquire the needed skills (cf. table 18 on page 248).
6.1.7 Intention to use the WWW for educational purposes
88% of the test candidates expressed the desire to use the WWW as a tool for
education in the future (cf. table 19 on page 249). However, the candidates also
wanted to use professional tools that supported them in this task. This statement
supports the concept of having a specialised authoring tool for the educational
experts as argued in chapter 4.
6.1.8 External requirements to use the WWW for educational purposes
55% of the test candidates stated that there was already pressure building up to
use the WWW more often for education. 33% of the test candidates could foresee
this pressure in the future (cf. table 20 on page 249). They also commented that
there were economic reasons that would drive distance learning more and more
forward in the future.
6.1.9 Educational markup projects
88% of the members of the evaluation group had no knowledge about any existing
educational markup projects, but 11% had heard about one project (cf. table 21 on
page 249). However, 100% of the group had no practical experience in working
with specific educational markup projects (cf. table 22 on page 249).
6.1.10 Summary of the pre-test interview
The pre-test interview of this evaluation was undertaken to determine the position
of the evaluation candidates in the research area of this PhD. The analysis of the
pre-test interview resulted in the following situation:
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