Friday, March 25

Guidelines on Choosing a Software

Criteria of a good software

1. Origin

  • Information of the developer is included
  • Information of the site's author is provided
2. Accessibility
  • Easy and free access
  • It provides 'help' feature
  • There are rules on how to use the site
  • Can be accessed through registration or password
3. Design
  • Appealing to audience
  • Design and features (graphics, videos, sounds) must facilitate learning
  • Features must not hinder learning process
  • Navigation through the site is easy
4. Content
  • Have educational goals and objectives
  • Materials are appropriate and suitable for the needs of the targeted audience (level and language skills)
  • Free from spelling mistakes, ungrammaticality and typos
  • Provides link to other relevant sites
  • Informative and accurate
  • Consists of additional features (graphics, videos, sounds)
  • Have various teaching and learning methods (process of learning and evaluation of skills)
5. Currency
  • Must be recently updated
  • References of at least 7 years before

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