AERA_CK_MK分析和总结分析和总结.docx

E-slate: A ‘black-and-white box’ approach to component computing C. Kynigos and M. Koutlis University of Athens and Computer Technology Institute kynigos@cti.gr, koutlis@cti.gr Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, 2002. Introduction In this paper, we review three aspects of the experience of E-slate development which are central to its design rationale and have played a crucial role in sustaining interest and funding since 1994. These are, the ways in which the user community may be empowered by building educational software through authoring, the adoption of a variety of strategies to generate user communities and the conceptualization of the E-slate project as an on-going sequence of broadly defined multi- organizational projects fitting into the European Community policy to bring know-how from member states, academia and industry closer together. We suggest that argumentation for component oriented technologies has focused too heavily on its potential large-scale economics of production and that a broader view of this technology is needed to understand and support its development and widespread use. We discuss these three aspects of user empowerment, socially grounded theory of use and long- term development, support and service sustainability as crucial for the component movement to progress, but also as its strength in relation to standalone technologies for computational media. History and principles of design and development Geography meets mathematics and then expands Two of the three original founders of the E-slate project were experts in G.I.S. systems looking to develop software for geography education (Koutlis and Hatzilakos, 1996). The types of functionality, the sheer volume of content and the types of representations for geographical information systems required quite heavy development and technically complex pieces of software. The idea to build a platform making it possible