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

7.3 New material 7 PRACTICAL EVALUATION
the educational material.
This step resolved the problem of too complex EMs, but the creation of several
EMs to avoid one large EM directly resulted in another problem. The HEAT
does not support inter-EM-linking at the moment. The possibility of linking one
EM directly to another EM will be crucial in the future, if a large quantity of
educational material should have to be converted into several small EMs.
7.3.5 Presentation of the material
The production of the material and its presentation via the WWW was working as
expected, but within the known limitations found in the interview evaluation and
the first part of the practical evaluation, i.e. it has potential for improvement.
This means that the presentation of the material should be improved in the future.
This improvement should not only focus on the graphical issues identified, but
also on the technical representation of the content, especially for multimedia files,
like video or audio files.
7.3.6 Ease of authoring
The authoring of the educational material was easier than in the first part of the
practical evaluation. This experience was based on the fact that firstly we were an
educational expert in the domain of the educational material. Secondly, we had
no pressure to convert all of the educational material.
However, some limitations found in the first part of this evaluation were also ap-
plicable at this point of the evaluation (cf. section 7.2.6).
7.3.7 Author’s expertise
The authoring of the new material in this part of the practical evaluation was not
as difficult as in the first part. This could be explained by the fact that the material
was not pre-existent and that there were no given limiting borders. Therefore, we
could concentrate on the creation of the educational material. Furthermore, the
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