Experiment with simulation programs

We have four different designed and lay-outed e-learing environment with one and the same simulation program, the applet 'Sunheater' or 'Boiler'.

All of the 5 sites have a problem. You have to solve that problem. That is always your task. Therefor there is help in the appearance of an instruction. Between the tasks and the problem there is a (small) difference in outcome; not in the task and not in the instruction. All the sites have the same kinds of instructions; even the texts are (mostly) equal.

The aim of these sites is to experiment and find the difference between peoples in

1: doing (simple) tasks,

2: solving (simple) problems and

3: using of all our (experimental) different designs in all our different prototypes.

Versions of one task

version a with virtual parallelism in part I

version b with a viewport left and a viewport right in part II

version c with a parallel text window in part III

version d with a parallel simulator in part IV

version e with parallel instruction on paper (on distance) in part V

Version a is an example of virtual parallelism; version b is a version with two viewports; version c has a parallel window with instruction; version d also has a parallel window with a simulator; and version e with a parallel instruction on paper (on distance).

Enschede, 23 mei 2001; updated october, 10, 2002


	[Home] [Part I] [Part II] [Part III] [Part IV] [Part V]